#Terra Nova

[ltwilliammowett]

'The "Terra Nova" icebound. Photograph by Herbert G Ponting -shows the ship of the British Antarctic Expedition of 1910-1913 stranded in Antarctic ice

[polarpics]

Officers of the Terra Nova enjoying a sunny day on the way to Antarctica, 1910

[kdramamilfs]

simone kessell as alicia washington in terra nova (2011)

[amundsenxcook]

Antarctica by Derek Mahon (1985)

[johntorrington]

men will have one pose

[nopickls]

The heroic age of Antarctic exploration - after The Terror opening credits

[ephraimwaite]

[torukmaktoskxawng]

My feed is now full of Quaritch, Stephen Lang, and Terra Nova. I remember watching that show as a kid and just thinking the whole time, "This is just Quaritch if he was actually decent" 🤣

Taglist: @mooniequeen @avatar-lover @anemonelovesfiction

[ltwilliammowett]

Terra Nova' in the ice. from 'Scott's Last Expedition', by Herbert Ponting, 1910

[areyougonnabe]

did you know that the screenplay for The Last Place On Earth by known socialist trevor griffiths (rip) is up on archive.org and you too can read the extremely insane and completely unfilmable original "play" (he consistently refers to it as a play) originally called Judgement Over The Dead (lmao) full of deleted scenes and historical easter eggs that somehow became the iconic* (*citation needed) 1985 miniseries???? well now you do

featuring, first and foremost, The Piano Twinks:

and amundsen/nansen???

and MY GOD BILLY WE ALL HAD SCURVY and BILL'S IMPLACABLE SYMPATHY

and deranged montages that surely he did not imagine would ever make it into the final version

and Young Bodies Begin To Glisten

and amundsen's hemorrhoids (???!?)

and BILLCON

and cherry (as played by twink hugh grant) swooning delicately post-winter journey

AND MORE BILLCON

and tom crean :'''))))))))

and The Canonical Canadian Exclamation

anyway that's all barely the tip of the iceberg (lol) so if you're looking for a crazymaking way to spend the next few hours i highly recommend diving in

[polarpics]

this little lieutenant photoshoot... teddy clearly loving it, pennell just happy to be included, campbell trying to kill ponting with his mind

[will80sbyers]

So much potential… All cancelled

[amundsenxcook]

edward wilsons illustration of mcmurdo sound

[writingestexplorer]

A while back I bought this on Ebay. It's an album made by someone (I'm imagining a boy scout but given its appeal here it may have been a middle-aged woman) with some pretty fragile original press clippings and handwritten notes. I got it laminated so it didn't fall apart any further.

"Every possible thing was provided man could want, so it was nothing to do with food that killed them. after reaching the Pole they retraced their steps. after crossing the glacier, Petty Officer Evans died of concussion of the brain, through walking over rough ice. He was the strong man of the Party and the least expected to succumb. It left them a shaken party.

After journeying on through the average of 47° of frost they reached eleven miles from the one ton depot when a fearful blizzard began. Captain Oates, who had been ill & bearing suffering without grumbling, thought he was keeping back the party & said “I am going out in the blizzard & I may be gone a long time”. They new he was walking to his death, but knew it was the act of a British hero and an English gentleman. His body was never found. They had food enough for two days and only eleven miles more to go, all would have gone well, had not the blizzard detained them. The knew their end was near so this is a brief discription of what Cap. Scott wrote. He said he hoped people would help the relations etc. of people who died. They had taken risks and new it, but did it to show Englishmen could undergo hardships.

Relief parties were sent out and found dead bodies & Cap Scott’s letter."

[nopickls]

[WH Auden]