#doomed expeditions

[violenceviolette]

"all well" message left by the Franklin expedition at Victory Point in may 1847 / "all goes well on board" message sent by carrier pigeon by S.A. Andree on july 13, 1897

[behindavelvetcurtain]

[tealin]

My post on the memorial cross atop #ObservationHill is up at twirlynoodle.com/blog "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield"

[doctorcolubra]

I only watched the terror because I wanted to see all the ways idiot Victorian men could die in the frozen tundra

Right?  It’s great.  I get this schadenfreude when I read about all the preparations and stuff, all the good advice they ignored.  “Oh, you’re gonna go cheap on the provisions, huh? Cool.  Summer uniforms?  Makes sense.”  Colonialism eating itself.