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Ice Coffee: the history of human activity in Antarctica

Release Date: 01/03/2023

Ice Coffee: the history of human activity in Antarctica

Bob Dovers does sterling OIC work setting the rhythm and mode of Mawson Station winters, though at considerable cost to his health. John Bechervaise continues in the grooves established by Dovers, cementing Australia's toehold in the cold and the meson telescopes in place. Phillip Law goes in to bat against bureaucrats cratting for all their bureau's worth and manages to keep the focus on science, though some of his ideas about what to do with an Australian territorial claim once his efforts have gained some traction for one are a bit odd in a present day context. A busy...

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Ice Coffee: the history of human activity in Antarctica

I recorded these interviews at the Australian Antarctic Festival in August 2024. I release them now in lieu of historical narrative episodes I should have ready but don't because reasons.

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Ice Coffee: the history of human activity in Antarctica

Phil Law and J. Lauritsen Lines join forces to finally get the ANARE a continental toehold.

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Ice Coffee: the history of human activity in Antarctica

What do you get if you cross religion with flat Earthers and Antarctica? A cross podcaster and little else.

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Ice Coffee: the history of human activity in Antarctica

Coming back at yer, six months late and barely on topic, episode 157 addresses the increasingly loud and dunderheaded online chatter about escaping society and trying to establish society, only with more ice and surprise cannibalism. Libertarians probably don't listen to my output, but any that do can dig a well, actually, and throw themselves down it before getting in touch to try to correct me on where I got their politics, reading preferences, and predictions about their Antarctic ventures wrong.

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Ice Coffee: the history of human activity in Antarctica

You don't just throw a Trans-Antarctic Expedition or an International Geophysical Year together. These things take planning. Here's some background on the planners and introductions to some of the doers.

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Ice Coffee: the history of human activity in Antarctica

Several years of Macquarie Island winters receive attention as I chill out under a Casuarina after several fraught months.

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Ice Coffee: the history of human activity in Antarctica

I give voice to another almost but not quite lost snippet from "Big Dead Place" and I give the microphone to Adam Fitzgerald who voices the introduction to Jeff Maynard's new book, "The Frontier Below."

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Ice Coffee: the history of human activity in Antarctica

In 1983 Australian glaciologist Trevor Hamley joined a Soviet traverse from the Russian coastal station, Mirny, to Dome Charlie, high atop the Antarctic plateau. Bouncing about in the back of a T-55 tank converted into a living quarters/galley/dining space/lab, recording locations on audio cassette tape, wielding a hammer, and ignoring the ideological and political drivers of the cold war in the name of survival, camaraderie, and science, Trevor experienced Antarctica in a unique context at a unique point in history. His book, "Vodka in a Vegemite Jar" recounts his experiences during the...

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Ice Coffee: the history of human activity in Antarctica

Australian Antarctic Division alumnus, Jeff Wilson, recounts his experiences at Australian stations and in the Ross Sea. Road trip with our eldest. Good company at Anglesea. Good food. Good audio. One of the best days 2023 offered up.

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Professor Daniella McCahey of Texas Tech discusses sexism at Antarctic stations.

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