Source: Futility Closet
Germany’s polar expedition of 1869 took a dramatic turn when 14 men were shipwrecked on an ice floe off the eastern coast of Greenland. As the frozen island carried them slowly toward settlements in the south, it began to break apart beneath them. In this week’s episode of the Futility Closet podcast we’ll follow the crew of the Hansa on their desperate journey toward civilization.
We’ll also honor a slime mold and puzzle over a reversing sunset.
Intro:
The yellow-bellied longclaw, Macronyx flavigaster, could produce the long-sought 10×10 word square.
Bruckner’s seventh symphony has made generations of cymbalists nervous.
Sources for our feature on the Hansa:
Fergus Fleming, Ninety Degrees North: The Quest for the North Pole, 2007.
William James Mills, Exploring Polar Frontiers: A Historical Encyclopedia, 2003.
David Thomas Murphy, German Exploration of the Polar World: A History, 1870-1940, 2002.
Karl Koldewey, The German Arctic Expedition of 1869-70: And Narrative of the Wreck of the “Hansa” in the Ice, 1874.
“The ‘Polaris’ Arctic Expedition,” Nature 8:194 (July 17, 1873), 217-220.
“The Second German Arctic Expedition,” Nature 11:265 (Nov. 26, 1874), 63-66.
“The Latest Arctic Explorations — The Remarkable Escape of the Polaris Party,” Scientific American 28:23 (June 7, 1873), 352-353.
Leopold M’Clintock, “Resumé of the Recent German Expedition, from the Reports of Captain Koldewey and Dr. Laube,” Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London 15:2 (1870-1871), 102-114.
William Barr, “Background to Captain Hegemann’s Account of the Voyage of Hansa and of the Ice-Drift,” Polar Geography and…
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