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Half-Starved, Three-Quarters Crazy: How Two Explorers Survived Alone in Northern Greenland in 1911-12 » Explorersweb Few have endured what Ejnar Mikkelsen and Iver Iversen did. Abandoned by their ship, these two Danes spent two winters in a tiny hut in northern Greenland.

explorersweb.com/half-starved... Researching this expedition was really fascinating; I’m surprised it isn’t more well known today. For anyone interested in learning more, Mikkelsen’s own books, ‘Lost in the Arctic’ and ‘Two Against the Ice’ are great accounts.

👀 adding to my list…

Okay! In the wake of the whole "we live inside a black hole" thing getting picked up all over the place, a quick guide to assessing astronomy papers for reliability without more than a cursory knowledge of the field. Here are some red flags to look out for:

For the Mignonette case in particular:
- Brian A Simpson, ‘Cannibalism and the Common Law: The Story of the Tragic Last Voyage of the Mignonette’
- “In Warm Blood: Some Historical and Procedural Aspects of Regina v. Dudley and Stephens.” The University of Chicago Law Review

For survival cannibalism in general, and this case in context:
- Lewis Petrinovich, ´The Cannibal Within’, 2000
- Gerald Porter ‘The Tender Cabin Boy: Cannibalism and the Subject’, Acta Ethnographica Hungarica, 2002
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How Cannibalism on the High Seas Became Illegal » Explorersweb The Custom of the Sea gave sailors who ate their comrades in a survival situation a pass -- until this 1884 tragedy.

I wrote this article a while back for ExplorersWeb about a key maritime cannibalism case but I wanted to add some more in depth resources for anyone curious about survival cannibalism and “the custom of the sea” (1/3) #history
#maritimehistory #cannibalism

explorersweb.com/how-cannibal...

without a doubt this is one of the worst pictures of roald amundsen. it means more to me than i can even express. fucking look at him

high altitude le morte d’arthur 2 hallucinations r a very well known phenomena. read a book

automatic writing is so funny to me “woah guys i know it looks like i just wrote this but i stg it was a ghost this is so crazy” how did anyone buy that

I did, yeah! its hardly super accurate but the vibe is what matters lol

brought him to work!!

MY FEARS WERE JUSTIFIED AN POST LOST HIM HES GONA FOREVER

fuck i wish i was in the victorian navy. my workplace never has Free Knife For Everyone Day

everyone look at the little polar explorer i made

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANDREAS VESALIUS 🎂🎁✨💀

chapter six… the secret, forbidden chapter…

Ross and several officers from Erebus go aboard Terror in the evening. Terror's new kittens are shown to Ross on a warmed plate.

he bought another hat

like okay roald i admit it youre serving. stop buying so many hats and pay back the norwegian government

always a new fuckass hat with this dude

bisclavret you will always be famous

guy in your trench who thinks hes funny: you know they call it the great war but it hasnt been great for me!
guy who went to the pole: this isnt as bad as antarctica
rat eating your gangrenous foot: *eats your foot*

i campaigned so hard against it but alack 😔

In an interstellar travel world you KNOW there would be a devoted fandom for early planetary exploration. "oh my god did you hear they found Jamie Dawson's remains on Gliese 2b"

one if by land, two if by sea, three if by air, four if they tunnel in underground, five for if they open a sort of space-time wormhole, six if— actually paul, you should really be writing this down

i would have put him in a glass jar with a leaf and stock and poked holes in the lid so he could breath and i would only shake the jar a little and maybe also put the jar in the freezer

okay now ive finished the worst journey in the world and the cherry biography what am i supposed to do now huh. where is my friend apsley cherry-gerrard i miss that stupid tory boytoy so bad

i dont believe in capital punishment but people who vape on the train…

this may be an unpopular opinion but i think polar explorers who died badly were kind of asking for it. why are you even in antarctica man.