Caroline Mikkelsen, around the time she accompanied her husband to Antarctica. To celebrate, there were sandwiches and coffee. Captain Klarius Mikkelsen gave a short speech, his chest swelling with pride: He praised his home country of Norway and extolled the heroic...
James Weddell was born in Ostend, Belgium, on 24 August 1787. He was a British navigator and sealer and undertook three expeditions to Antarctic regions. On his third voyage and in search of new hunting grounds in 1823, he unexpectedly beat James Cook’s southern...
On March 5, the “Endurance22” expedition discovered the wreck of Shackleton’s ship and published their sensational find on March 10. Practically at the same time, the band Hanreti released their music album about an Antarctic expedition. Image:...
George W. DeLong was born in New York City on August 22, 1844. He entered the United States Naval Academy at the age of 17 and became a lieutenant in 1869. On July 8, 1879, he set out from San Francisco on the ship Jeannette to clarify the fate of the missing ship...
In the 1930s, more than 30,000 whales were killed and processed worldwide each year. By 1960, the number of marine mammals killed increased to about 40,000 per year. As a result, many whale species were on the verge of extinction. (Photo: Cor Gransbergen) We always...
