#exploring expedition

[birdiebowers]

live laugh love Herbert Ponting's descriptions

[not-euclidean]

Photos taken by Harald Sverdrup of the aurora borealis as viewed from ‘Maud’, 1918-1925

[clove-pinks]

Details from Arctic Expedition, in search of Sir John Franklin, 1848-49 published 31 Jan 1850, lithograph after W.H. Browne.

[karolinastast]

lino cut series, inspired by photos of the Trans - Antarctic expedition, lead by Sir Ernest Shackleton, photographed by Frank Hurley

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[jamesfitzjamesdotcom]

A very detailed report on the wrecks of Erebus and Terror from Parks Canada, including drawings of the wrecks and the items found. It's a huge document, can't wait to properly read it. READ IT HERE.

[Figure 5.2.1: Terror and Erebus, Plan of Upper Deck (as Fitted) overlaid with the upper deck site plan (Image: B. Lockhart, Parks Canada; Drawing: C. Pillar, Parks Canada; 89M2017-101-1; Ship plan: National Maritime Museum Greenwich, London (ZAZ 5675, J1409))]

[pangeen]

" Sunset in Antarctica " // © D R E W S I M M S

[illneverbeapassenger]

Pressure ridges, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica.

October 2024.

[jeyneofpoole]

they don’t tell you this but when you (history major) find your one thing (lifelong obsession) the entire span of human history narrows down into before the thing and after the thing. i experience time in bfe and afe (before franklin expedition and after franklin expedition) and 1845 is like an angel to me. i have developed a parasocial relationship with a YEAR. it can happen to you too don’t act so coy you’re not better than me

[peatbogpirate]

I've been wanting to do a full-crew Endurance illustration for a long time, and finally the gang's all here! 28 men, dogs and cat all accounted for, with every crew member referencing either a photo of them or a story about them. It's a little over two years since I first read Lansing's Endurance and I couldn't be happier to still be researching and drawing these guys :)

[hms-melodrama]

[s4ltedcod]

gif-ing endurance dogs to deal with all my current problems

[ponkothepenguin]

Made this no good very bad presentation for a powerpoint night one of my friends is hosting! The instructions were to pick literally anything, and, well…. You know.

Sincerely hoping this isn't too insane for the non-polarhead. ah well

[thatsbelievable]

[werewolfetone]

My mother says that based on the fact that nothing bad happened to hms carcass in the northwest passage in 1773 apart from being iced in for like a week and a half they should have renamed terror and erebus hms cannibalism and hms lead poisoning in order to reverse psychology nominative determinism. frankly she would do numbers on this site

[cockroachesunite]

Madhouse Promenade

(inspired by this)