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News of the graphic novel adaptation of The Worst Journey in the World, abundant Terra Nova facts, and Antarctic interests more generally. worstjourney.com
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Also, head on over to MY shop at ko-fi.com/tealin/shop to pre-order some polar-themed midwinter cards so I know how many to get printed!
An illustration of the Cape Evans Hut beneath Mt Erebus in the Antartctic night, with the first verse of 'In The Bleak Midwinter' superimposed, formatted like a Victorian prayer card. A colour illustration based on Ponting's photo of the Cape Evans midwinter tree, 1911.
October 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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🔥🔥🔥https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/polar-record/article/why-did-endurance-sink/6CC2C2D56087035A94DEB50930B81980🔥🔥🔥
A screenshot from the conclusion of the linked article: Finally, there is clear evidence that, before sailing towards the Weddell Sea, Shackleton knew that compressive ice loading should be expected, he knew how a ship should be designed for compressive ice, and he knew that Endurance was not that kind of a ship. Shackleton was well aware of the risks related to the strength of Endurance, but chose to use it anyway.
October 7, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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I'm pressing the 'print' button on the cards next Wednesday! Please let me know before then how many you would like, so that you're sure to get them. I'll be shipping them early November, to reach you in time to mail them out before Xmas. Mugs and pins might get shipped before then.
Set of 5 resin and brass pins, showing Scott, Wilson, Bowers, Oates, and the Polar Party. We don't know what happened to the Evans pins. Available singly or as a set. A nicely proportioned bone china mug with the logo of the Scott centenary on it and three coins for scale. An illustration of the Cape Evans Hut under Mt Erebus at night. Superimposed on it is the first verse of Christina Rossetti's 'In the Bleak Midwinter' formatted to look like a Gothic Revival prayer card. Mockup of two midwinter cards, one the 'bleak midwinter' illustration and the other a colour illustration of the Midwinter Tree from June 1911.
October 6, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Silas and Pyaree
October 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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It is a truth universally acknowledged ...
Silas Wright and George Simpson strategically positioned at the buffet table during the Terra Nova's farewell ball in Dunedin. Simpson is employing the buffet plate-stacking technique preferred by wizards at Unseen University.
September 16, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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The world may be going on fire, but on the other hand, I found a baby photo of The Cat Who Must Not Be Named.
From The Sphere, 24 May 1913. A photo of a small black kitten in someone's beefy hand. Caption: "A mascot of the second Scott expedition. Kitten on board the Terra Nova." Digitised by Sarah Airriess Sept 2025.
September 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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This has been bothering me all day.
The Terra Nova isn't famous for being Scott's shipwreck.
It's famous for being Scott's ship. It was sunk deliberately after being holed by ice, 31 years after he died, on the other side of the planet.
The Drake meme. Top, unacceptable: [headline on BBC News site] "Captain Scott's famous polar shipwreck as never seen before" Bottom, nice: [blatantly corrected] "Captain Scott's famous polar ship'S wreck as never seen before"
September 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Happy birthday Dr. Bill!
A photograph of a watercolour by Dr Edward Adrian 'Bill' Wilson, of Observation Hill, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Below it is a portrait of Wilson and a blurb about him. Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, UK
July 23, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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I think this may be about the busiest drawing I have ever attempted to draw.

On the plus side, I found Deb's necklace.
September 27, 2024 at 5:28 PM
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It's the 112th anniversary of Scott & Co reaching the Pole, which means it's also the anniversary of non-smoker, anxiety self-medicator Wilson putting funny cigarettes in the hoosh. (N.B. the line should be "desperate struggle to reach the ship" before she left for the year, edit 1913)
From Scott’s journal for 17 Jan 1912, "added a small stick of chocolate and the queer taste of a cigarette brought by Wilson."
January 17, 2024 at 8:18 PM
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Google's algorithm is getting scary good. I asked to see a sea ice shear crack and it gave me a photo of the very crack I was looking for, which may have been taken on the very day for which I was looking it up. Plus three other unpublished Griff stereographs! Thank you, Nat'l Library of Australia.
Stereograph taken by T. Griffith Taylor of a cave in an iceberg at Cape Roberts, Antarctica. From the National Library of Australia's Flickr account. https://www.flickr.com/photos/national_library_of_australia_commons/with/6173440193 Cape Barne meeting the Barne Glacier. Photo by T. Griffith Taylor, from the National Library of Australia's Flickr account. https://www.flickr.com/photos/national_library_of_australia_commons/with/6173440193 Kenyte ventifact at Cape Evans, Erebus purportedly in background. Photo by T. Griffith Taylor, from the National Library of Australia's Flickr account. https://www.flickr.com/photos/national_library_of_australia_commons/with/6173440193 The shear crack in the sea ice between Inaccessible and Tent Islands. Photo by T. Griffith Taylor, from the National Library of Australia's Flickr account. https://www.flickr.com/photos/national_library_of_australia_commons/with/6173440193
December 29, 2023 at 4:14 PM