Inexpressible Island / Antarctica

Inexpressible Island is a rocky island located in Terra Nova Bay at 74° 54'S 163° 43'E. Some of Scott's team - The Northern Party - were trapped in the Winter of 1911-12 and named this god forsaken place. Find here all that is Inexpressible about Antarctica.

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Leith Cove, Antarctica. From A to B

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Entering Deception Island by momentaryawe.com on Flickr.

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Beardmore Glacier. Wavy flow. Antarctica.

> Washington State University

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Antarctica. Colours

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Taxidermy Tuesday, penguin display getting it’s final touches. Also a penguin modelling this years trend in newspaper fashions!

© The Field Museum, Z94397c.

Two staff members, exhibit preparators, installing penguin specimens in the diorama. One of the penguin is wrapped in newspaper.

Hand Coloured Lantern Slide

1935 

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Hardy folk. Tent envy. Sigurd Tycho taking measurements in observatory tent . Hjalmar Johansen assists. 6th March 1894 Arctic Ocean. Photographer Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930)

Arctic But I love it so.

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Arctic but I love it so.

Sigurd Scott Hansen observatory magnetic measurements supported by blocks of ice near the "Fram"

Dogs were used as draft animals . A topping-out ceremony is set on top of ice structure to signify that working people expect påskjønning (sic) from the builder 22 September 1895  Arctic Ocean 

Photographer : Sigurd Tycho (1868-1937)

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Quick and dirty proofs of some small plates I have been trying to do something with.  They may make their way in to the structures I have been building

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Antarktis, Palaoa, Neumayer Station. Alfred Wegener Institut- webcam

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http://antarcticocean.org/

Last hours for conserving precious Antarctic Ocean.

Please sign campaign to help save near pristine Ocean before it’s too late.

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Poor Ponies...

'The southern journey sets off'

Page 4, South Polar Times, June 1912

Scott Polar Research Institute.

Herbert Ponting

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Stormy seas.

Ship journey between Falklands and Antarctic.

Drake Passage, Scotia Sea, southern Atlantic Ocean.

RRS James Clark Ross

June 2013

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Frank Hurley (1885-1962)

Unidentified Landscape, Antarctic, circa 1910

(Source: lesleypunton.blogspot.com)

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In the days before Instagram effects. Golden penguins and a ship that bears an appropriate name - Aurora - thanks to silvering and degrading of glass slide

The Aurora anchored  at Queen Mary Land. Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914

Photographer - Frank Hurley 1913

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Adelie Land from Home of The Blizzard by Douglas Mawson

Frank Hurley 1913

National Library Australia

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“Except those little tufts of shrubbery, the whole country was a barren Tack doomed by Nature to everlasting sterility”.

Cook wasn't impressed.

ISLE OF GEORGIA Charts, and views of headlands, from Captain Cook's Second Voyage, 1772-1774

 collection British Library

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“The inner parts of the country were not less savage and horrible. The wild rocks raised their lofty summits, till they were lost in the clouds, and the valleys lay covered with everlasting snow. Not a tree was to be seen, nor a shrub even big enough to make a toothpick.”

- Captain James Cook

Description  of South Georgia Island landing

17th January 1775