PBYs, Sikorsky 51s, and Antarctica. The episode I'd fabricate from whole cloth if the events didn't actually happen. Peter Mott leads the British effort to map the Antarctic Peninsula before any pesky…
The FIDS investigate why all those seals are pining for the fjords, the Argentines engage in naval gazing, the Chileans extend their EEZ to meet everyone else' "not touching you, can't get mad"…
FIDS get sledging. Major Moreno gets protest notes. Chile gets left out for an episode. Eva Peron's bust gets busted.
One of the most iconic names in maritime history does his empirical bit to show the world where Antarctica isn't.
A brief look at what was going on around the world as the exploration of the Southern Ocean began.
Peter Kemp isn't well recorded, so there's little to tell about him other than he sailed on the Magnet and saw a coast that's now named after him.Jason Kimberley traveled to Antarctica in 2005 and did…
The last gasps of British sealing efforts in the South and a brief profile of a dynasty of ship owners who paid for a lot of the exploitation of marine resources in the sealing and whaling boom times.
Morrell was a liar, Symmes was a looper and Reynolds was a bona-fide genuine slick talker. Running to catch up in the claims stakes, US politics gets in the way and Morrell adds confusion. More on…
Hear me mix and match pronunciations as my brain fights it out between what it knows is correct and what it's accustomed to.James Weddell - the explorer who went sealing in an age of sealers going…
Powell sets a new benchmark for "Who?"Sealer, navigator, measurer and cartographer, that's who.
