Wilson's account of the Discovery voyage

"A terrible discovery in the hoosh tonight; a penguin's flipper. Abbott and I prepared the hoosh and I can remember using a flipper to clean the pot with and in the dark Abbott can't have seen it when he filled the pot. However, I assured everyone it was a fairly clean flipper and certainly the hoosh was a good one."

wanky art project in antarctica

aww yeah

an unusual year of high temperatures and its effect on the strange antarctic dry valleys

mind-numbing detail on minerals exploitation agreements for Antarctica

obsessive rehearsal of the self-evident and immemorial claims of Chile to its slice of frozen nothing

spat over whether the russians will contaminate the lake, which has been sealed off for 10 million years and might have strange life in it

aborted Third Reich attempt to stake a claim to Antarctica

batshit insane Chilean diplomat and hitlerist

weird Chilean machinations (but great flag) to enforce their Antarctica claims

the French territorial claim to Antarctica

U.S. law enforcement arrives to kick ass in the Antarctic

some further background, especially on "Argentine Sea" and "Tri-Continental Argentina"

rehearsal of the main territorial claims

blogger working on the British antarctic survey

Free travel and polar clothing, hang out at the bottom of the world

funny firsthand account of Hobbesian struggle for windows in a 13 hour eclipse-watching chartered flight

Columbia high-altitude launch plume apparently migrated to antarctic within four days

coldest place on earth