The Ghosts of Antarctica: Abandoned Stations and Huts

DRB ^ | 09 Dec 2008 | Constantine vonHoffman

[RightWhale]

Interesting. Some day the moon might be like this except without the ice.

[jas3]

This is from just above the hut at Port Lockroy (which the British renamed from Port Lacroix when they took it from the French). Very pretty spot.

[tatsinfla]

they were of a different breed from todays men....

[dware]

An EXCELLENT post. Very fascinating.

[DCBryan1]

awesome post!!!

[Sir_Ed]

Wow...haunting, ethereal.

Thank you so much for this...

Ed

[Cailleach]

this was so cool. Thanks for sharing it!

[tutstar]

Thanks! Very interesting!

Also would be a good idea for a home school lesson.

[mowowie]

Very interesting.

I wonder if anybody has ever found R.J. MacReady’s frozen body around there.

[dead]

Bump, fascinating stuff!

[Doomonyou]

Cool post!

or is it C-C-Cold post?

[swarthyguy]

Very fine Post, Indeed. Mountains of Madness!

“It’s rather like being an archaeologist and opening up a tomb in a pyramid and finding an astronaut sitting inside. It shouldn’t be there” —Dr Robin Bell, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

HP LoveCraft & Hindu Mythology BUMP.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Heck this is just an opportunity to get in a cheap shot about global warming.

[gorush]

Would that we could have leaders like Earnest Shackleton at the helm today.

[gorush]

Would that we could have leaders like Earnest Shackleton at the helm today.

[LSAggie]

Here's a book for you--Shackleton's Forgotten Men: The Untold Tradegy of the Endurance Epic by Lennard Bickel. It's an excellent account of Shackleton's "support staff" charged with setting up the food caches for Shackleton to use during his trek across the continent. It's amazing and heartbreaking at the same time.

[gorush]

Thanks, I’ll look it up. I’ve read many of Shackleton’s biographers and would happily read more.

[patton]

Looks cold.