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Nick Smith's article on visiting the North Pole as appearing in current edition of E&T magazine

nicksmithphoto wrote 4 weeks ago: Breaking the ice at the North Pole You don’t have to be an Arctic explorer to visit the Geographic N … more →

Tags: 50 Years of Victory, Arctic Ocean, climate change, Engineering & Technology magazine, Engineering and Technology magazine, franz josef land, geographical, Lenin, North Pole

EXTREME EARTH

madhavgopalkrish wrote 4 weeks ago: Chinstrap penguins (Pygoscelis antarctica) ride out high surf on blue-ice icebergs near Candlemas Is … more →

Tags: Lifescape, South Africa, Add new tag, Antarctica, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands, iceberg, cape town, South Dakota, Antarctic

Nick Smith interviews fine art photographer Stuart Klipper in 'Outdoor Photography' magazine

nicksmithphoto wrote 2 months ago: The art of outdoors Stuart Klipper is an American fine artist who shoots the world mostly through a … more →

Tags: Artist, film photography, Fine Art & Photography, Interview, Nick Smith, North Pole, Outdoor Photography magazine, panoramic photography, Photography

Nick Smith reviews 'The Shackleton Letters' in Bookdealer magazine, November 2009 edition

nicksmithphoto wrote 2 months ago: Yours faithfully, Ernest Shackleton Nick Smith reviews The Shackleton Letters: Behind the Scenes of … more →

Tags: Antarctic exploration, Antarctica, Aurora Australis, Book Review, Bookdealer, Charles Darwin, endurance, Ernest Shackleton, Exploration

Professor Paul Crutzen - interview

Admin Volvo Environment Prize wrote 3 months ago: Paul Crutzen wishes for a better understanding of the process 1. In your opinion which are the major … more →

Tags: 1991, Interview, Environment, Sustainable Development, stratospheric ozone, ozone hole, Emissions, COP-15

Polar Hoaxes and Lost Worlds6 comments

Michael Robinson wrote 3 months ago: A century ago this week Robert Peary and Frederick Cook locked horns in the  “The North Pole C … more →

Tags: Asia, Expeditions, Popular Culture, Science

Nick Smith's feature on ‘Nimrod Centenary’ for Explorers Journal, Summer 2009

nicksmithphoto wrote 6 months ago: The mighty Nimrod – a century on This year sees the centenary of the British Antarctic Expedition 19 … more →

Tags: explorers journal, Bob Headland, A Chronology of Antarctic Exploration, Antarctica, Nimrod, Shackleton, Aurora Australis, Alexandra Shackleton, Explorers Club

Could The Earth Contain All The Resurrected People Of History?

breakthroughtogod wrote 6 months ago: researchpark.arc.nasa.gov This world in its present state could hold few more people. Many areas are … more →

Tags: Resurrection, Wars, god's government, Millennium, Earth, mountains, Tillable Land, mountain ranges, Deserts

Greenland ice could fuel severe US sea level rise

Jac van Tuijn wrote 7 months ago: New computer modelling shows an additional sea level in north eastern North America of 10 cm higher … more →

Tags: USA, Global Warming, Sea level rise - global, climate change, Atlantic Ocean, coastal cities, Canada, sea-level rise, coastal zone management

Flood risk from Antarctic ice overestimated – its not 5 but 3,3 meters

Jac van Tuijn wrote 7 months ago: A cross section of Antarctica making British scientist Bamber believe that one third of the icecap w … more →

Tags: Global Warming, Sea level rise - global, climate change, sea-level rise

Wine Not?

polarprisca wrote 7 months ago: I’ve been away exploring Prince Edward County, perhaps the newest wine region in Ontario, if n … more →

Tags: Travel, Wine, Perú, Ecuador, China, Egypt, quark, quark expeditions, job perk

Nick Smith's interview with Pen Hadow in E&T magazine (Catlin Arctic survey – pre-departure)

nicksmithphoto wrote 7 months ago: Techno explorers take to the ice This month a team of explorers lead by Pen Hadow will set off on fo … more →

Tags: explorer, Engineering & Technology magazine, Exploration, Ernest Shackleton, Nick Smith, Pen Hadow, Catlin Arctic Survey, Martin Hartley, ann daniels

What Kind of Explorer are You?5 comments

Michael Robinson wrote 8 months ago: Robert Peary Explorers’ narratives only get you so close to the truth. They are — like a … more →

Tags: Explorers

'Shortcut for the armchair traveller' feature article in Times Higher Education Supplement by Nick Smith

nicksmithphoto wrote 8 months ago: Researching a feature on Ernest Shackleton earlier today I came across an article I wrote about prin … more →

Tags: Press notifications (words only), Antarctica, Ernest Shackleton, Aurora Australis, Robin Hanbury-Tenison, CuChullaine O'Reilly, Print On Demand, antiquarian books, Mike Berry

Nick Smith's review of Bob Headland's 'A Chronology of Antarctic Exploration' as appeared in Bookdealer magazine (full text)

nicksmithphoto wrote 8 months ago: A few people mentioned to me yesterday at the Antiquarian book fair at the RGS that they’d not … more →

Tags: Bookdealer, Bob Headland, A Chronology of Antarctic Exploration, Antarctica, Nimrod, Shackleton, Book Review, Quaritch, Exploration

New Arctic Exhibition2 comments

Michael Robinson wrote 10 months ago: Septentrionalium Terrarum Descriptio, Gerard Mercator, 1611. A polar projection showing islands and … more →

Tags: Announcements, Maps, Photos, and Images, Popular Culture, Visual materials

WMO-report reviews all new evidence of global environmental change gathered in Polar Year

Jac van Tuijn wrote 10 months ago: Cover IPY-report on the results of all scientific research in 2008. During a special ceremony on Feb … more →

Tags: Global Warming, climate change

Maybe I Was Wrong3 comments

Michael Robinson wrote 11 months ago: Why do people climb 8000-meter mountains? Free-solo the Eiger? BASE jump the Eiffel Tower? Motives a … more →

Tags: Space, Explorers, mountains, Popular Culture, Historiography

New Worlds2 comments

Michael Robinson wrote 11 months ago: Life cover from 22 February 1954 featuring shot of film 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea At times I thin … more →

Tags: Digital Archive, Visual materials, Maps, Photos, and Images, Announcements


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