Big Dead Place :
This site is dedicated to Antarctica and to thinking about Antarctica.
Though much of the site is original, some of it is excerpted from the book Big Dead Place, to be published by Feral House Publishing.
The site is edited by F. Scott Robert, a pseudonym for an enthusiastic lackey at an Antarctic station who enjoys his or her job and has an excellent work record. Considering the National Science Foundation's record of irritable reactions when its tidy iceberg yarns are marred by unauthorized observations, using a pseudonym is a thin but reasonable precaution when one enjoys the mesmerizing activities of The Program, but feels incapable of showering the great Antarctic circus with the unqualified praise of the professional journalists, who wriggle to Antarctica to spawn omissions.
We welcome submissions and we respect anonymity if you prefer.
Big Dead Place :: Welcome to the Program: "Many of the early explorers who came to Antarctica died miserably of starvation while freezing to death. This unique frozen heritage is visible just across the bay from McMurdo Station at historic Discovery Hut, built by Robert Scott in 1902. In that noble wooden hut, several men once spent four months, clothes awash with gore from their endless seal slaughtering, their faces black from the soot of their barely flickering blubber stoves, their faces and fingers blistered and pocked from slogging a thousand miles with a ripped tent and a salvaged stove, their spongy gums still bleeding from the scurvy incurred on their futile sledding journey to lay depots of food for Ernest Shackleton's Trans-Antarctic expedition that would never arrive because Shackleton's boat was crushed in the ice, he and his men fleeing the continent for their lives, amputating limbs as necessary."
This site is dedicated to Antarctica and to thinking about Antarctica.
Though much of the site is original, some of it is excerpted from the book Big Dead Place, to be published by Feral House Publishing.
The site is edited by F. Scott Robert, a pseudonym for an enthusiastic lackey at an Antarctic station who enjoys his or her job and has an excellent work record. Considering the National Science Foundation's record of irritable reactions when its tidy iceberg yarns are marred by unauthorized observations, using a pseudonym is a thin but reasonable precaution when one enjoys the mesmerizing activities of The Program, but feels incapable of showering the great Antarctic circus with the unqualified praise of the professional journalists, who wriggle to Antarctica to spawn omissions.
We welcome submissions and we respect anonymity if you prefer.
Big Dead Place :: Welcome to the Program: "Many of the early explorers who came to Antarctica died miserably of starvation while freezing to death. This unique frozen heritage is visible just across the bay from McMurdo Station at historic Discovery Hut, built by Robert Scott in 1902. In that noble wooden hut, several men once spent four months, clothes awash with gore from their endless seal slaughtering, their faces black from the soot of their barely flickering blubber stoves, their faces and fingers blistered and pocked from slogging a thousand miles with a ripped tent and a salvaged stove, their spongy gums still bleeding from the scurvy incurred on their futile sledding journey to lay depots of food for Ernest Shackleton's Trans-Antarctic expedition that would never arrive because Shackleton's boat was crushed in the ice, he and his men fleeing the continent for their lives, amputating limbs as necessary."
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