Antarctica

There is a hidden continent on Earth. We have known about it for centuries, first as a ‘Terra Australis’, a large landmass required to balance the world (thank Aristotle for that idea), and later as a land underneath the ice, much smaller than had been assumed and leaving the world severely unbalanced with the southern…

Mount Erebus, Ross Island and the Age of Exploration

This is a reposted article from December 3, 2011. I have always had a love of the beauty of the Antarctic. When I discovered that a cousin of my grandfather had joined Shackleton’s Trans-Antarctic expeditionof 1914 to 1917 as the official photographer, this love morphed into an enduring interest in the early explorations of the…