018_Wilkes
Ice Coffee: the history of human activity in Antarctica
English - February 10, 2016 11:47 - 28 minutes - 26 MB - ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsHistory Science Natural Sciences antarctic antarctica ice penguins scurvy shackleton terra amundsen aurora australis Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: 017_Dumont_d_Urville
Next Episode: 019_Scurvy
For my money, Charles Wilkes is the first of the Antarctic matinets. Drawn south by the opportunity to lead a large expedition and little else, his attempts to coordinate six poorly fitted out and ill matched ships crewed by people who largely thought little of him went every bit as well as that sentence presages.