Flurries-and-frost - Do You Remember Your First Snow?

The men (and dogs) of the First Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914. Images from the State Library of New South Wales; photographs by the inimitable Frank Hurley (and a few by other expedition members). 

Bonus: expedition leader Douglas Mawson balancing on the rail of the Aurora with a delightfully boyish grin.

Nice outfit loser 🙄 1845 called. The Franklin expedition was just sighted by whalers in Baffin Bay awaiting good conditions to enter the arctic labyrinth

Examples of Inuit clothing. The ironic problem of wearing linen and cotton clothing in the arctic was sweat. Activities such as manhauling, warping the ship, and preparing camp were strenuous, and the men would sweat from the exertion. The problem came when they stopped. In low arctic and Antarctic temperatures the sweat would freeze almost instantly, leaving the unfortunate individual wearing what was more or less a sheet of ice.This, of course, ended in frostbite and hypothermia. Several explorers accounts recall clothing and sleeping bags that were like sheets of iron, thawed only with more exertion. The Inuit not only relied on dogs for hauling thus saving unnecessary exertion, they also overcame that tropical adaptation to cooling off all humans have with their clothing. Hides do not absorb sweat as readily, and were softened by chewing. Anoraks also are designed to ventilate, as discovered and described by Amundsen when he began wearing Netchili clothing. The air running through it evaporates the sweat and ends up leaving the wearer virtually free of ice garments.

HMS Erebus in the Antarctic, detail of a painting by John Willson Carmichael, 1847 - edit by Canada History

Tuunbaq 🖤

The Danish training ship “Georg Stage” (1934) dresses in rainbow colour, 2021 

“i would be fangirling so hard if i met him” but im talking about my favorite scraps of fabric from the franklin expedition