“Capsized to a T—”

Emil Racoviță in 1876, 1897, 1899, and 1921 (c/o Racoviță Foundation)

sorry for being so obsessed with that little man who lives in my head. as if i have any choice

manhandling is so fun like sure u can put me over there i don’t mind

Wake up Babe! New Belgica antique Art just dropped!

from this auction website

vilhjalmur stefansson in september 1913

hello do yoj ever think about de gerlache wanting to keep danco's corpse around like shauna with jackie in yellowjackets s2 so they could bury him in belgium where adg would be able to visit his grave and lecointe and raco having to be like no we're not doing that. "leave it on the pack ice in a coffin" they'd already been drifting for months if fred had agreed to do the embalming adg would've been like ohhh well we can't leave him out there actually we'll lose track of him. better keep him on the ship i'll definitely act normal about that

this but they are both adult men from belgium in the rat-infested hold of a ship trapped in antarctic pack ice

btw the above is from Lecointe’s book but in AdG’s version of events he says they decided as a group that keeping Danco on board would endanger the health of the living. like the above passage was how Lecointe decided to try to spin those events so it would be less obvious that AdG was trying to keep Danco’s corpse on board for the duration of their voyage

31 March 1854: The bureaucratic death of the Franklin Expedition

"Officers and ships Company are to be considered as having died in the Service & their wages are to be paid to their Relatives to 31 March 1854"

[HMS Erebus muster, The National Archives]

what other show creator/writer is doing it like this seriously

tozer effectively getting sir john killed by being like cmonnnn boss saturdays are for the BOYS boss why dont u hang out and watch us kill this giant polar bear boss will ALWAYS be funny to me

I've been wanting to do a full-crew Endurance illustration for a long time, and finally the gang's all here! 28 men, dogs and cat all accounted for, with every crew member referencing either a photo of them or a story about them. It's a little over two years since I first read Lansing's Endurance and I couldn't be happier to still be researching and drawing these guys :)

some terra nova sketches (+ one bill from discovery)

Just a few new-to-me Karluk pics, for the collective 🥰

Edwin Landseer (1802-1873) “Man Proposes, God Disposes” (1864) Animalier Located in the Royal Holloway, University of London, London, England

The painting was inspired by the search and disappearance of Sir John Franklin’s lost 1845 Arctic expedition that had set out to explore the Northwest Passage.