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Ice Coffee: the history of human activity in Antarctica
Release Date: 11/09/2023
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Ice Coffee: the history of human activity in Antarctica
PBYs, Sikorsky 51s, and Antarctica. The episode I'd fabricate from whole cloth if the events didn't actually happen. Peter Mott leads the British effort to map the Antarctic Peninsula before any pesky Patagonians steal the cartographic glory constituting the last low hanging Antarctic fruit. The Falkland Islands Dependency Aerial Survey Expedition drew together broad talents and drew the ire of less glamorously tasked FIDS. Recorded on location in Gippsland and atop Bass Strait. A visit from a kitty cat and a song by Ellis Piper to round out my happiness with episode...
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Ice Coffee: the history of human activity in Antarctica
The FIDS investigate why all those seals are pining for the fjords, the Argentines engage in naval gazing, the Chileans extend their EEZ to meet everyone else' "not touching you, can't get mad" boundary, and the Uruguayans think about forming a plan for an idea on a scheme for getting south. Lots of Base D and Base A granular detail and broad strokes everywhere else, because that's how my library currently looks.
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165_Still_on_about_the_Antarctic_Peninsula_in_the_mid_1950s_part_3
Ice Coffee: the history of human activity in Antarctica
FIDS get sledging. Major Moreno gets protest notes. Chile gets left out for an episode. Eva Peron's bust gets busted.
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164_Cam_Hawley_and_the_Antarctic_Staggerwing
Ice Coffee: the history of human activity in Antarctica
A rambling, meandering episode full of happenstance reminiscences that barely ties in to the Antarctic history thread of this series through an encounter with Antarctic novel author Evelyn and an interview with Cam Hawley about the restoration of the Beech Staggerwing carried south by the United States Antarctic Service Expedition. Cam spoke to me in a hangar at Wanaka airport during the Warbirds Over Wanaka airshow and the ambient sounds of Harvards and Strikemasters going about their skybound business outside offers a neat backdrop to our dialogue. Photographs of the Antarctica...
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163_Christine_Rees_and_Antarctic_water_chemistry
Ice Coffee: the history of human activity in Antarctica
An interview with Christine Rees about finding her path south through water chemistry lab skills. Better living through chemistry indeed!
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Ice Coffee: the history of human activity in Antarctica
Part two of my coverage of the British, Argentine, and Chilean attempts to bolster national pride in and international recognition of their various efforts on the Antarctic Peninsula. This episode drills down on goings on in Hope Bay and Anvers Island and features an interruption from Kettle catching the largest flathead I've seen in a good few years, which I left in in its entirety as an aural reminder of the best day I spent at work in over two decades.
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161_Graham_O_Higgins_Martin_Land_part_1
Ice Coffee: the history of human activity in Antarctica
The first half hour of a lengthy and bumpy adventure in trying to recount what happened around the Antarctic Peninsula in the first half of the 1950s. And Craig.
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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.
info_outlineANARE occupation at Heard Island ran short but intense, and sometimes in tents.
In addition to large quantities of wind and sleet the island provided a training ground for Antarctic travelers and their dogs.
Challenging maritime approaches led to innovative approaches by maritime challengers, and everyone got home safely, this episode.