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Andrey Grachev, Siberia
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Darren Almond, Arctic Plates 6, 2003 (via lyliminette)
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Carolyn Marks Blackwood, Arctic Midnight – Horizons
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The Arctic region produces an abiding sense of dislocation in those who go there. Here rocks, ice and ocean gradually give way to a progressive whiteness. What happens to our senses when we lose ourselves in a land where we cannot see boundaries or outlines? When do we lose a sense of scale? What happens when the maps are useless? What can we rely on?
Anna Filipova, North of the map
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Peder Balke, Nordkapp c.1840 (via 1910-again)
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Aurora in form of drapery observed at Port Foulke, Greenland, January 6, 1861. (via nordlyspolaris)
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Have we sufficiently considered the fact that northerners constitute a distinct minority on our planet?
Ryszard Kapuscinksi, The Shadow of the Sun
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Jean de Pomereu, Fissure 2 (2008)
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Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey, Ice Lens (2005) (via invisiblestories)
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Rather than viewing them as part of a larger explanatory record, I prefer to think of them as furnishing the sole evidence of expeditions about which nothing else is known.
Geoff Dyer, on photographs of polar exploration in the Threepenny Review
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A Cascade of Weathered Ice Spills From the 14 Square Mile Glacier, Karagom Glacier, Caucasus Mountains, Russia, 1890 (via liquidnight)
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The loneliness of remote regions has a special tune,
such that one believes one ought to understand
and even see this special thing that slips away from thought.
From Mary Ruefle's "Minor Ninth Chord"
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Alaska by WildYouth (via heynorth)
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1905 nautical chart of the North Sea’s coastal regions. (via myimaginarybrooklyn)
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Some of the marginal summaries printed in the Hakluyt Society's edition of Henry Hudson the Navigator, covering his voyages in search of the Northwest Passage during the years 1607, 1608, and 1609-10.
The inclination of the needle.
The Mount of Gods Mercie.
Snow.
To loofe is to keep close to the wind: roomer, cont[rary].
Land not covered with snow.
Land not farre off.
Greenland or Newland discovered.
Temperate ayre.
The shroudes and sayles frozen.
A blacke and open sea.
From hence it seemeth is taken out of Hen. Hudsons owne notes.
Blue and greene seas.
Sick of beares flesh unsalted.
Greene sea freest of ice, and the blue sea icie.
Whale danger.
Heat beyond 80 degrees.
Sunne 10 degrees 40 minutes high, about midnight.
They returned.
Abundance of seales.
Dangers escaped.
No passage that way.
They goe ashore.
His purpose altered.
Nova Zemblya pleasant to the eye.
Cause of much ice in those seas, which make no navigable passage.
Willoughbies land a conceit of cardmakers: it seeming to be no other than Newland or Greenland.
Thunder.
No night in ten weekes.
Their first sight of stars: for further north they had continuall sunlight.
A strange current out of the southwest.
Note well.
Foggie and thick weather.
Land being low, white and sandie.
Sixe savages come aboard them.
They spoyle houses of the salvages.
They goe on land near Cape Cod.
The norther land is full of shoalds.
They strike.
Yellow copper.
Tall oakes.
Red copper.
Colman slaine and two more hurt.
Treacherous savages.
Very loving people.
Oration.
Okes, walnut trees, chestnut trees, ewe trees, cedar trees, etc.
A pleasant place to build a towne on.
Treacherie of these savages.
A skirmish and slaughter of the savages.
Desolation.
Desire Provoketh.
A mightie growne sea.
A great and whurling sea.
A mayne of ice.
An hot bath.
Iland of ice overturneth.
Danger by ice.
Discontents.
A dangerous rocke.
Anchor lost.
Sea of two colours.
November the tenth frozen in.
John Williams dyeth.
Greenes conspiracie.
Their hard wintring.
Miserable diet.
Wilson and Green, their wickednesse.
Robert Juet.
Oath abused.
The carpenter spared.
They bind the master.
The names of the company exposed in the shallop.
Last sight of the shallop.
The wicked flee where none pursueth.
Cockle grasse.
A rocke.
Savages manner of fowling.
Savages dogges.
Savages treacherie.
Treacherie just to unjust traytors.
Green slain.
Wicked and wretched end of wretched wicked men.
Miserie pursueth the rest.
Poore diet.
Robert Juets death.
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Some views of the Antarctic, 1931
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Gerhard Richter, Eisberg im Nebel - Iceberg in Mist, 1982 (via onepainting)
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