#north pole exploration

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Nansen - art by Boris Artzybasheff (1940)

#boris artzybasheff #fridtjof nansen #biography books #cover art #arctic explorers #north pole exploration #polar bear #schooner #book illustrations #anna gertrude hall #1895 #1940

[sunfortune]

my perfect ending for katara was basically inejs ending in six of crows where she leaves to hunt slavers on the ships (but she always comes back <3). so like painted lady episode but larger scale enacting justice for people in the world who have no one. bc getting rid of the fire lord wasn’t just gonna fix every thing. i think that would’ve slayed soo hard and been perfect for her. even a tiny allusion to it would’ve been everything. but whatever. i Don’t care. it doesn’t bother me that she just got married and stayed home. after having to mother everyone for 3 books. it’s fine. i’m an adult. explodes .

#also in the very beginning SHE wanted to go explore the iceberg #SHE wanted to leave the north pole to help aang #like she was meant for that!!!! #almost all her centric episodes are her leading for justice in some way #the haru on the ship prison ep #the southern raiders ep (my beloved <3) #the painted lady ep #the blood bending ep #also when she litchrally fought against the northern water tribe bc they only saw women as potential wives and mothers and not benders #LIKE!!!!!! #atla

[coolthingsguyslike]

#Robert Peary #explorer #Arctic #Expedition #SS Roosevelt #North Pole #1908 #fur #adventure

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Lt. Commander Richard Byrd testing the glasses he planned to use during his flight over the North Pole. He sailed from New York on the S.S. Chantier on April 1, 1926. With him is Dr. Daniel O'Brien of John Hopkins University, who acted as a medical aid on the expedition. When Byrd returned, he became a national hero.

Photo: Associated Press

#vintage New York #1920s #Richard Byrd #polar exploration #polar expedition #North Pole #Arctic Circle #North Pole flight #Arctic flight #April 1 #1 April

[clove-pinks]

The perfect gift for your budding polar explorer: Game of to the North Pole by Air Ship, new for 1897!

The game is possibly inspired by Swedish explorer Salomon Andrée's 1897 attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon (which did not go well). Presumably it was made before Andrée's grim fate was known.

Is this Greenland (because it's green), or Svalbard? Either way, the objective appears to be nestled in a verdant mountain valley. Just like the real North Pole!

#polar exploration #arctic exploration #1890s #polar #board games #victorian #north pole #salomon andrée #1897 #the fake airship on the game box looks more practical and durable than andreé's real balloon

[sastrugie]

ok im back into my polar obsession - i know i missed alot in these fice years BUT im happy to know the fandom is still alive AHHHH

so - please reblog/ like this if you are interested in

antarctica

arctic

polar exploration

scotts expeditions

shackletons expedtions

fridtjof nansen, amundsen and co

belgica

terror the series

and polar stuff in general

cant wait to talk to yall <3

#polar stuff #yonna talks about froze men #polar expedition #polar exploration #ernest shackleton #robert falcon scott #terra nova expedition #endurance expedtion #fridtjof nansen #roald amundsen #antarctica #arctic #robert peary #frederick cook #north pole #south pole #belgica expedition #the terror

[todaysdocument]

Diary of Robert E. Peary, page 5

Collection XP: Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary Family CollectionSeries: North Pole Diaries

[double underline] C. Columbia [/double underline]

16 ret. m.      61 d. 

Wed-Thurs. Apr. 22-23

8.-a.m. Apr. 23

My life work is [ended - crossed out] accomplished. The thing which it was intended from the beginning that I should do, the thing which I believed could be done, & that I could do, I have done.

I have got the North Pole out of my system.

After 23 yrs. of effort, hard work, disappointments, hardships, privations, more or less suffering & some risks, I have won the last, great, geographical prize, the North Pole, for the credit of the U.S., the Service to which I belong, myself, & my family.

My work is the finish, the cap & the climax, of 300 years of effort, loss of life, & expenditure of millions, by some of the best men of the civilized nations of

#archivesgov #April 23 #1909 #north pole #arctic #arctic exploration #robert e. perry

[drfrederickacook]

Frederick Cook claimed he was the first to reach the North Pole on 21 April 1908. In 1937 he said "I have been humiliated & seriously hurt, but that doesn't matter anymore. What does matter to me, is that I want you to believe that I told the truth. I discovered the North Pole."

[Image: contemporary copy of a signed picture, my collection. Quote: Robert Bryce 'Cook & Peary', p. 729]

#frederick cook #polar exploration #polar explorers #arctic #arctic exploration #north pole #Team Cook

[polarexplorerspoll]

POLAR EXPLORERS SHOWDOWN: BONUS ROUND

#sorry north pole and south pole girls for putting you guys against each other #but we had to do it eventually #polar exploration #poll #bonus round

[full-of-terrors]

Important information from I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination (a very serious and scholarly book about the cultural impact of polar exploration in the United Kingdom in the 19th Century)

Citing Eric Partridge's DIctionary of Slang:

"North Pole" = arsehole in rhyming slang around 1870.

That is all.

#did people call each other north pole #or say go to the north pole? #enquiring minds want to know #i may be some time #polar exploration #terror adjacent #imbst

[lindahall]

Adolphus W. Greely – Scientist of the Day

Adolphus Washington Greely, an American Army officer, died Oct. 20, 1935, at age 91. 

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#Adolphus Greely #arctic #exploration #North Pole #histsci #histSTM #19th century #history of science #Ashworth #Scientist of the Day

[universalambients]

The Artic (1854) Ambient Music

#artic #greenland #norway #cold #artic circle #winter #northern lights #polar bear #aurora #ice #polar exploration #polar #aurora borealis #mountains #iceland #north #canada #iceberg #antarctica #alaska #north pole #frozen #ice aesthetic #ice age #ice and snow #snow #winterfell #siberia #nature exploration #expedition

[accessant]

#drawing #dailysketch #sketch #artists on tumblr #illustration #dailydrawing #fan art #digital art #nature #artic circle #polar bear #polar exploration #north pole #south pole #antartic empire

[violenceviolette]

Outside, the wind and the sea. Within me is joy.

Paul-Émile Victor, Diaries 1936-1937

#paul émile victor #paul-émile victor #polar expedition #polar explorer #polar exploration #polar history #north pole #arctic exploration #arctic #greenland

[captainclervals]

I am once again thinking about Walton's objectifiation of Victor and how regardless of the kindness and good intentions he showed he still didn't treat him like a person

because how can you really have the deepest human empathy and genuine love for someone, while seeing them absolutely heartbroken and losing the last grasp on the will to live, in despair over losing every single meaningful thing they'd ever had—and as they cry in front of you in the most vulnerable and tormented shape you've ever seen another person sink to, you think of how noble and divine and beautiful they are

he couldn't have been in love with Victor

there's not really a way to truly love someone you've literally just met, you can have a spark of attraction, an interest, a connection; you can get along and take the first steps of learning about each other and realize that you do want to develop the relationship further; depending on the person and personalities you can even have a mutual affection, but how can you actually be in love with someone you don't know?

it's not being in love with the person—it's being smitten with the idea of them, and in love with the picture of them you've painted in your own head, completely divorced from the real living breathing multifaceted person

and Walton (subconsciously) didn't allow himself the opportunity to see Victor as that layered multidimensional person that he could grow with and learn how to best love. he was just as much at fault as Victor for the distance between them that couldn't be bridged. Victor may have rejected Walton's offers of help and company in starting his life over—he put distance between "friend" and "soulmate"

but Walton practically put all the miles between the dirt and the seventh heaven between them. he lifted Victor from a lonely death in the ice, but higher and higher too, until he was more of an idol than a person, until Walton could just watch from the ground and admire and yearn after all that knowledge and beauty and mystery that he can never obtain, never conquer, because he put it out of his own reach. and when Victor made those small steps closer to connect to Walton, Walton deferred further to kneel even lower, insisting on his inferiority, his subpar education/intelligence, his faults, his desperate need for someone far greater to patiently guide and direct his life for him

there could never be a middle ground because Walton wouldn't let himself think of Victor being on that level with him. he talked about how he always wanted to be with a man whose eyes could reply to his but he couldn't even allow themselves to be on equal footing to look him in the eye at all

#txt #ive gone over this before i know but every time i think of it i realize how much more flawed it is on waltons side too #i want to psychoanalyze him. #why tf does he put such lofty things seemingly deliberately out of his own reach #its like he sets himself up for failure but maybe doesnt even realize it #not just with the whole massive deadly undertaking of exploring the north pole thing #but even in his early years #things like his poetry #he wouldnt let himself just learn to be a poet and enjoy it #his goal was to be on the level of shakespeare and homer and whatever. and when he inevitably failed to live up to that #in a short amount of time #he gave up in despair #for some reason he needs things to be out of reach. if its realistically obtainable he cant let himself strive for it #dont @ me im just crawling around after hours.

[gwydionmisha]

#Balloonists #The North Pole #Polar Explorers