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Old stars
I found Archie by the shallow end wearing a short terry-towelling robe open to the waist. Time and tide had left him shipwrecked and bloated, but you could still recognise him from the pictures on his album covers: same dark pouf and ducktail and duotone tan, only now he got his colour from a bottle and his hair from a can. He’d been drinking gin and tonic since happy hour started, brought out by an over-attentive waitress.
The supper
where Sacrificer and Sacrificee, still fragrant with the Blood of Morning and Harvest, gather by twisted Beak and crooked Hand
Flowers and fruit
This arrangement like any other, each the simulacrum of before.
Languages
the sky keeps no secret but a rainbow
A recipe for Rote Grütze
I imagine you as a young woman here in this foreign place trying to learn a language your children brought home from school.
Between different worlds
Antarctica offers windows into many different worlds...
Where borders break down
WHEN EXPLAINING MY Antarctic research to new acquaintances, at a dinner party or a barbeque, I can usually predict...
Cold currents
WHEN ROBERT FALCON Scott reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912, he immediately knew he had been beaten....
Among ancient moss forests
IT WAS FEBRUARY 2022 when I started writing this essay, and I was returning from three weeks in Antarctica....
Game theory on ice
It’s no surprise...that many analysts think the Antarctic Treaty can serve as a template to solve modern-day territorial disputes. But how realistic is that?
Postcards from the frontline
The Antarctic Treaty was negotiated between May 1958 and June 1959, an impressively short period of time given formidable geopolitical issues that needed to be addressed: the status of sovereign claims and Cold War competition.
Blinding whiteness
Stories of animal migration to Antarctica, such as yalingbila, are reminders of global Indigenous connections to the frozen continent. As our kin traverse Antarctic waters, they too connect with the myriad creatures carving a living out of the ice.
