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Anyone up for a cruise to the South Pole on this #TravelTuesday? Join the explorations as an armchair traveler with The Cruise of the Antarctic to the South Polar Regions (1896) by Henrik Johan Bull. Contributed for digitization by Biodiversity Heritage Library Australia and @museumsvictoria to #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46292002
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THE SPACE CHASE RETURNS! JUNE 10–20
The trinary suns of Nexus are aligning once again, ushering in the return of the Space Chase! Run Expeditions to earn limited-time currency to buy and open cases with housing décor and other goodies inside. And this time Expedition end-bosses also have a chance to drop a rare mount and pet!
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Louise Arner Boyd (pictured above), lead expeditions to the Arctic from 1926-1941, where she focused on polar geography and photography. The map featured hand written annotations by Louise Boyd in red to show: icebergs, noon positions, heavy ice, slack ice, ice edge, Danish vessel “Gustav Holm,” routes and dates. The third photo is Louise Glacier at Avannaarsuani Tunumilu Nuna Allanngutsaaliugaq (Northeast Greenland National Park), formerly known as Louise Boyd Land.
Map’s call number: 110-b B-1931 Boyd Expedition of 1931
[Image description 1: A photo of Louise Arner Boyd with her hair pulled back in a net. She wears a sport coat jacket and large flower brooch. Image 2: A map of the Arctic Ocean and the Greenland Sea with red annotations by Boyd. Image 3: A black and white photo of a glacier.]
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It’s #MonsterMonday!
This map, Polus Arcticus, inspired by William Barents’ three voyages to the Arctic regions in 1594, 1595, and 1596, was made by Gerrit de Veer in 1598. This version was published by the Hakluyt Society in 1876. The map includes illustrations and notes and was removed from: The Three Voyages of William Barents to the Arctic Regions, (1594, 1595, and 1596). The first edition was edited by Charles T. Beke, and printed for the Hakluyt Society in 1876. One of the chapters of the book is entitled “True portraiture of our boats and how we nearly got into trouble.”
061 A-1598 1876
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