Ice Coffee: the history of human activity in Antarctica

Byrd and Wilkins are done in Antarctica for the 1920s and head north, leaving many loose ends in the snow next to the do... Read more

First out of the blocks in the three way race south, Dumont d'Urville does a fair job with the resources France can thro... Read more

Boom! Two episodes in two days.  Take that, incomprehensible download statistics.  Let's see me make sense of you now.  ... Read more

I'm sick of 2016.  A friend just died for stupid reasons and my extended family and many friends are facing life in the ... Read more

Scott leads his team south while Amundsen and Mawson keep his clockwork wound up tight. Stormy seas, pack ice and a four... Read more

Lars Christensen funds extensive coastal exploration in concert with his whaling exploits.  A decade of Norwegian effort... Read more

The best acronym in Antarctic history draws to a close and Sir Douglas leaves the southern continent for the last time. ... Read more

Dammit - it happened again. This story always ends the same way. All of the driving forces behind Scott's polar ambition... Read more

Douglas Mawson gets a lot done in just twelve months.

Frank Worsley knocks it out of the park, navigating across eight hundred nautical miles of open ocean with four sextant ... Read more

With aircraft offering opportunities to keep the feet dry and singalling a possible end to the miseries of sledging in a... Read more

Byrd's second expedition re-colonises Byrd's first expedition's digs after lots of digging.  Gentoo penguins under the h... Read more

Dogs make all the difference in getting to the South Pole and back.  With Amundsen's triumph, no-one would ever bother g... Read more

Roald Amundsen returns to the narrative and takes pole position, showing the world what you can achieve if you don't giv... Read more

Prussian Army lieutenant Wilhelm Filchner led Germany's second expedition in the early 20th century.  While the governme... Read more

I've got a few tidbits left to add about the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, and Mawson will be back in the narrative... Read more

Flying in the Arctic posed a dodgy prospect but faint heart never ended up dead on a tundra. 

Shackleton's depot laying party head to the Ross Sea and fight to get food and fuel to the foot of the Beardmore.  Part ... Read more

Four of the interviews I recorded at the 2018 Australian Antarctic Festival in Hobart.  Bob Tompkins, Joe Johnson, Ian T... Read more

What's this? Three episodes in quick succession? Blame the hosting service download counter.  I'm now obsessed with topp... Read more