#no confession

[antarcticconfessions]

Do you ever look at non-british expeditions and you wonder if they weren't able to afford razors...

Really why are the British so often clean shaven? What's their secret?

[history-confessions]

Sometimes I think about Geoffrey....

Geoffrey Hornblower Cock to be exactly

[taxidermycanine]

YOU THERE

HALT !!!

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[addendumbeekeeper]

there’s a tumblr person right in front of me and i can’t do anything

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Knowledge Revenge.

[deansbisexualflannel]

[lolstargirl]

[antarcticconfessions]

I am sorry, I needed a historical more accurate version

[icaruspendragon]

[dollopheadz]

november 5th you will always be famous

[antarcticconfessions]

not a confession but i was wondering if you have reading recommendations for any of the underrated expeditions you mentioned (sans belgica)? 🙏

Absolutely awesome site to help you out with finding Belgica literature and info is @packloafer 's site

For the French Expeditions

You can find a short biography on Charcot here (in french and English)

Then there are Charcot his own books

Journal de l'expédition antarctique française, 1903-1905. Le "Français" au Pôle sud (I only ever found it in french, not sure if it ever got translated)

The Voyage of the Why Not?

German Expeditions

Germans in the Antarctic, gives you a good overview over the expeditions under Drygalski and Filchner (and the expedition under the Nazis)

Drygalski's Expedition

Zum Kontinent des eisigen Südens, the English name is The Southern Ice Continent, but I wasn't able to find a online version of it

Diary from the Sailor Paul Björvig, he was a ice pilot on the expedition (unfortunately only in German, the original diary is in Norwegian)

Filchner's Expedition

Same problem with Zum sechsten Erdteil, it got translated, but I can't find it

Also from my knowledge this book leaves out the heavy amount of animosities that happened during the expedition

Paul Björvig's Diary for this expedition  (in German)

In regards to the other expeditions, I have to admit that I don't know about all of them either, unless we count the Wikipedia entries.

So if anybody wants to add book material on any of the Expeditions of the heroic age of Antarctic exploration, please do, there are surely many who will appreciate it. 🙏 Thank you ❤️

[history-confessions]

Everybody looking cool and stuff

.... then there is Konstantin Krefft and Eberhardt Stapenhorst being kids and annoying each other.

[taxidermycanine]

them: you better not be gay wolf when i come over

my gay wolf ass:

[beebeedibapbeediboop]

This is just my excuse to draw Lily in a victorian goth outfit tbh

[justaleafinthewind]

If any one of my posts is to break containment, make it this one.

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