Ice Coffee: the history of human activity in Antarctica

Part two of my coverage of the British, Argentine, and Chilean attempts to bolster national pride in and international recognition of their various efforts on the Antarctic Peninsula.  This episode drills down on goings on in Hope Bay and Anvers Island and features an interruption from Kettle catching the largest flathead I've seen in a good few years, which I left in in its entirety as an aural reminder of the best day I spent at work in over two decades.

The first half hour of a lengthy and bumpy adventure in trying to recount what happened around the Antarctic Peninsula in the first half of the 1950s.  And Craig.

Bob Dovers does sterling OIC work setting the rhythm and mode of Mawson Station winters, though at considerable cost to his health.  John Bechervaise continues in the grooves established by Dovers, cementing Australia's toehold in the cold and the meson telescopes in place.  
Phillip Law goes in to bat against bureaucrats cratting for all their bureau's worth and manages to keep the focus on science, though some of his ideas about what to do with an Australian territorial claim once his efforts have gained some traction for one are a bit odd in a present day context.  
A busy 1954 and 1955 for ANARE, though I couldn't find much about what the Mawson Station winterers got up to during their southern sojourn.

I recorded these interviews at the Australian Antarctic Festival in August 2024.  I release them now in lieu of historical narrative episodes I should have ready but don't because reasons.

I recorded these interviews at the Australian Antarctic Festival in August 2024.  I release them now in lieu of historical narrative episodes I should have ready but don't because reasons.