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03/30/16 • 24 min

Ice Coffee: the history of human activity in Antarctica

Little Antarctic exploration occurred in the decades immediately after the French, American and British race south that rounded out the 1830s. American, German, British, Scottish and Norwegian visitors did turn up looking for whales and in the course of the invention of oceanography. This episode takes the series up to the 1890s and sets the scene for the voyage that would kick off the Heroic Age of antarctic exploration in all its capitalised glory.

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With many Arctic winters and more Arctic summers under their belts, Ross and Crozier got a lot done and brought their crews home safely. Gongs all round.

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More Norwegians head south seeking whales. A kerfuffle over who's on first marks the start of the Heroic Age. In 2005 I recorded an interview with Rob Robbins, head of the USAP diving programme. This was slated for a New Zealand radio programme that never came about, itself a rip off of RRR's "Radio Marinara" in Australia, and was captured using a badly battered Mini-Disc unit. It's not the best audio but I could have been using sticky tape and iron filings as a recording medium, for all I cared. Rob Robbins is legend among my circle and I was stoked to have his time and attention. With "Radio Tuna" failing to launch, this is the material's first outing.

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