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. 

Direct download: 021_Cooper_Dallman_Challenger_Dundee_Larsen.mp3
Category:History -- posted at: 3:10am EDT

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.

Direct download: 020_Ross_Crozier.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 6:16am EDT

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