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Ice Coffee: the history of human activity in Antarctica
Release Date: 11/20/2023
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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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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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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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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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160_Two_Years_at_Mawson_Station
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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157_The_Final_Experiment
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.
info_outlineThe ANARE presence at Heard Island runs to 1955 and switches focus to continental Antarctica.
The Island taught Australians to work on glaciers and to run dog teams, saw John Bechervaise cut his Antarctic teeth and lead the first ascent of Big Ben, and claimed the lives of two winterers.
"Ice Coffee" leaves Heard Island alone for a bit having documented its reputation as a very difficult place to operate boats, keep sheep, and traverse safely.
Don't think Heard Island counts as proper Antarctic?
Head to 53 deg S and say that.