The Antarctic Circle is a non-commercial forum and
resource on historical, literary, bibliographical, artistic and
cultural aspects of Antarctica and the South Polar regions. The breadth
and quantity of its content expands periodically.
The Antarctic Circle itself—as distinct from this
website—is an informal international group of scholars and
knowledgeable amateurs interested or involved in non-scientific
Antarctic studies.
The Antarctic Circle has benefited from much useful information passed on for inclusion by many people over the years.
Inclusion in The Antarctic Circle of appropriate
material from persons active in the above areas is welcomed. For more
information please contact the coordinator:
Robert B. Stephenson, Mailing Address: P.O. Box 435, Jaffrey, New Hampshire 03452, USA
Physical Address: 8 Main Street, Jaffrey, New Hampshire
Tel: 603-532-POLE (no answering machine)
E-mail: antarctic-circle@comcast.net [Note: From time-to-time correspondents, particularly in Europe and Australia, find their e-mails are bounced back by Comcast. If this happens an alternative e-address is
rs41@me.com]
Accessed at least 
since 2 October 1996.
NOW IN ITS 14th YEAR!
Last updated: 28 July 2010.
SITE MAP
The Library of The Antarctic Circle has moved to a new location. Have a look at http://web.me.com/rs41/Library/Home.html
WORTHY OF ATTENTION
Support a BLUE PLAQUE for Sir Clements Markham's London house.
Have a look at some unusual penguins.
Current & Upcoming Antarctic Events.
[Last Updated: 6 July 2010]
• Wally Herbert in Sweden
• Big Scott/Amundsen show at the AMNH in New York
• Music, Sound & Cultural Connections conference in Canberra
• New Zealand Antarctic Festival
• Scott exhibition in Plymouth
ARCHIVES OF PAST EVENTS:
Past Antarctic Events - 2009 and 2010.
Past Antarctic Events - 2007 and 2008.
Past Antarctic Events - 2005 and 2006.
Past Antarctic Events - 2002 through 2004.
Past Antarctic Events - 2001 or Earlier.
Antarctic Book Notes. [Last Updated: 28 January 2010] Recently issued Antarctic titles:
• Companion volume to the AMNH exhibition: Race to the End of the Earth.
• Jean Pimentel's 'French bibiliography'
• Smith's 'Life, Travels and Sufferings'
• Nimrod No 3
• Shackleton Letters
• Nimrod Illustrated
• Body at the Melbourne Club
• Headland's "doorstop"—finally!
• Rosove updated
• Peter Speak's biography of Debenham
• Bob Burton's history of the British Antarctic Territory
• New Wilson biography
• Tatham's Dictionary of Falklands Biography
• Lisle Rose's life of Byrd
• Forster's Cook, The Discoverer first appearance in English
• Lady Shackleton/H.R. Mill correspondence now out
About Antarctic Encyclopedias—More Than You Will Ever Want or Need to Know.
Antarctic Books Due and Works-in-Progress.
[Last Updated: 31 March 2010]
• Meredith Hooper on Scott
• On Silas Wright
• Another from T.H. Baughman
• Coffee-table book featuring the Transantarctic Mountains
• History of the South American Sector of Antarctica
• An update from David Wilson
Antarctic Auctions.
[Last Updated: 6 July 2010] • Christie's Polar Sale 22 September 2010 • Michael Treloar sale, 18 July 2010 • Scott letters 12 June 2010 RESULTS • Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh on 13 January 2010 RESULTS • Christie's South Ken on 15 October 2009 RESULTS • Frank Wild's medals RESULTS • Likely Wilson block-buster at Bonhams in September RESULTS • Rarest of rare Wilkes at Bonhams • Bloomsbury's Photographs, Travel, Military, Natural History, Maps & Atlases Sale, 25-26 March 2009 RESULTS • Christie's Exploration & Travel Sale, 25 September 2008 RESULTS • Polar books at Swann RESULTS • Lots of Antarctic books at Dawson & Nye in New Jersey RESULTS • Shackleton photo at Bloomsbury, London RESULTS • Discovery napkin ring at Onslows 27 November 2007 • Ponting photo at Swann 15 October 2007 RESULTS • Christie's Polar Sale, 26 September 2007 RESULTS • PBA Galleries Natural History - Travel & Exploration - Sporting - Maps & Atlases Sale, 9 August 2007 RESULTS • Bonhams, 26 June 2007 RESULTS • John Levinson Sale at Swann, 24 May 2007 RESULTS • PBA
Galleries Travel & Exploration Sale, 10 May 2007 RESULTS •
Frank R. Streeter Library at Christie's, 17 & 18 April, 2007
RESULTS • PBA Galleries Travel & Exploration Sale, 25 January
2007 RESULTS • The Antarctic Library of Raymond J. Adie, 26
October 2006 RESULTS • Christie's Polar Sale, 27 September 2006
RESULTS • Byrd parka. 25 May 2006 • Aurora Australis
up on 21 March 2006. GOES FOR £53,000 • Christie's Polar
Sale, 27 September 2006 RESULTS • Dominic Winter Book Auctions, 9
November 2005 RESULTS • Christie's Exploration & Travel with
the Polar Sale, 21 September 2005 RESULTS
Antiquarian Booksellers specializing in Antarcticana. [Last Updated: 15 March 2009]
Some Rare Antarctic Books [Last Updated: 28 April 2010] • The Blizzard [SOME NEW ADDITIONS] • Aurora Australis [SOME NEW ADDITIONS] • The Antarctic Book [NEW] • South Polar Times.
Antarctic Collections.
[Last Updated: 16 February 2010] • The largely unknown Griffith Taylor collection in Australia • Antipodean Books' big collection • SPRI's 'Freeze Frame' project • New acquisitions by Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery • Byrd Polar Research Center Archival Program • Waite Collection at Peabody Essex Museum. • SPRI's archives going on 'Archives Hub.'
Antarctic Maps. [Last Updated: 23 December 2007] • Extensive update. New information on US and UK maps and charts of Antarctica • New BAS map.
Antarctic Queries. [Last
updated: 15 April 2010] • Scott's camera • A Shackleton mystery • A Query and a Puzzle. Requests
concerning • Frank Bickerton (AAE) • Scott, J.M. Barrie and
'Polly' • author J. Gordon Hayes
Antarctic Websites. [Last Updated: 15 March 2009] • More e-books • Frank Hurley relaunched • Many Antarctic titles on Google Book Search.
Antarctic Organizations. [Last Updated: 16 August 2009]
Antarctic Odds & Ends.
[Last Updated: 4 April 2010] • Two Keynote/Powerpoint presentations • Shackleton(s) in Boston • An interesting two pages from Frank Hill • George Gibbs, Antarctica's first black explorer • Blackboard penguins found at SPRI • Scott-era diary found •
SPRI Appeal • Sir Hubert Wilkins' birthplace restored • A new
journal from the James Caird Society.
Antarctic Obituaries. [Last Updated: 11 January 2010] • Including indexes to obituaries in the Polar Record and Geographical Journal.
• Fauno Cordes 25 December 2009 • Jackie Ronne 14 June 2009 • Margery Wharton 17 September 2008 • Sir Edmund Hillary 11 January 2008 • Sir Wally Herbert 12 June 2007 • Peter Jensen Skellerup 15 May 2006 • John Arnfield Heap 8
March 2006 • Norman Vaughan 23 December 2005 • William Mills
8 May 2004 • Duncan Carse 2 May 2004 • Lady Virginia
Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes 20 February 2004 • Captain Leonard Hill
2 September 2003 • A.G.E. Jones 2002 • Charlie Burton 16 July
2002 • George W. Gibbs 7 November 2001 • Harding Dunnett 22
April 2000 • Commander Sir Jameson Adams 30 April 1962
Antarctic Art. [Last Updated:
29 March 2009] • Frank Wild plaque now up at Grytviken • Antarctic Artist Robert C. Hogue • Duncan Carse bust appeal • First Antarctica painting • Mrs Chippy returns! • Scott statue unveiled in Cardiff • 1903 Article by Frank Wilbert Stokes • Operation Deepfreeze I on-line exhibition.
Antarctic Image Chronology [Last Updated: 21 November 2009] Prepared by William L. Fox.
Antarctic Photography and Film [Last Updated: 11 June 2009] Photography Comes to the Polar Regions—Almost, by Glenn M. Stein, FRGS.
Antarctic Movies [Last Updated: 18 January 2010] Dramas/Fictional Movies about Antarctica (non documentaries). Compiled by Valmar Kurol.
Antarctic Music. [Last
Updated: 14 January 2007] • Video and music from iLIKETRAiNS
• Our Retired Explorer (Dines with Michel Folcault in Paris, 1961)
• Two songs from Billy-Ace • A Shackleton song • Music
commemorating Bruce and the Scotia. • A Scott song. • 'Songs
of the Morning' CD.
Antarctica Experienced Through Music; Capsule Comments on CDs about Antarctica. [Last Updated: 12 February 2010] Prepared by Valmar Kurol.
Antarctic Theatre. [Last Updated: 18 April 2010] • Tom Crean: Sailor on Ice—an online audiodrama. • The Last South tours Britain 9 April - 24 May 2008.
Antarctic Poetry. [Last Updated: 31 December 2009] • Two Scott poems • A Shackleton poem. • A Scott poem.
Antarctic Medals. [Last Updated: 31 March 2010]. Curated by Glenn M. Stein, FRGS. NEW • Frank Wild. • Sergeant William Cunningham, Royal Marines. • Netmen of The Antarctic. • French South Seas & Antarctic Expedition, 1837-40. • The German Atlantic Meteor Expedition Medal 1925-27. • Thomas Feather. • Admiral Edward Joseph Bird. • The Challenger Medal. • Pilot "Tommy" Thomson. • Alton Lindsey, Byrd Antarctic Expedition II, 1933-35. • Russia's Honored Polar Explorer Badge. • Dog driver Louis P. Colombo.
Antarctic Trade Cards. [Last Updated: 29 March 2008]. This combines Series 1, 2 and 3.
Antarctic Calendar.
[Last Updated: 12 September 2005] A listing of Antarctic events--some
important, some less so, some interesting or entertaining--with entries
for many days of the year.
Antarctic Ships. [Last
Updated: 21 August 2008] Ships that loom large (and small) in the history
of Antarctic exploration. • Some new entries from Jennifer Stringer • Richard Paul Smyers on the Wyatt Earp and the Schwabenland • Some interesting details on the Bear • Some additions from Charles Lagerbom • Info on the Uruguay from Michael Rosove
Antarctic Aviation. [Last Updated: 9 December 2006]
Antarctic Pets. [Last Updated: 30 March 2004]
Antarctic Food & Drink. [Last Updated: ] NEW
Antarctic Nicknames. [Last Updated: 24 April 2009]
Antarctic Quotes. [Last Updated: 23 January 2005]
Antarctic Firsts. [Last Updated: 4 September 2009]
Summary of Antarctic Voyages and Expeditions. [Last Updated: 28 December 2006] Prepared by Michael Rosove.
Chronologies & Timelines of Antarctic Exploration.
[Last Updated: 4 February 2010] • Principal Expeditions during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration • An Historical Timeline of
Antarctic Exploration • A Concise Chronology of Approach to the
Poles • Timelines for Ernest Shackleton, Robert F. Scott and Roald
Amundsen.
Antarctic Historic Sites. [Last Updated: 1 April 2007]
A Low-Latitude Antarctic Gazetteer. [Last Updated: 4 April 2010] A descriptive listing of sites of Antarctic interest outside of the Antarctic, places that have some association with the exploration of the South Polar Regions. Prepared by Robert Stephenson. MAJOR RE-ARRANGEMENT UNDERWAY. JUST ADDED: • PowerPoint shows • Google maps locating sites (so far London, Australia, New Zealand and parts of England and Wales).
Tekeli-li. [Last and Final Update: 11 January 2010] Fauno Cordes'
annotated bibliography of Antarctic fiction. Hundreds of works of
fiction—1605 to the present—that have an Antarctic setting or
connection of one sort or another. Extensive and useful introduction. NOTE: Fauno died on 25 December 2009. Her obituary appears elsewhere on this site.
A new series to carry on the work of Fauno Cordes
will appear here in the near future under a new name but in the same spirit. It will be curated by Valmar Kurol with the assistance of Elizabeth Leane, Jeff Rubin and David Stam and will invite suggestions from those who wish to make them.
Endurance Family Members. [Last Updated: 27 May 2008] Richard Brodeur's 'work in progress' tracing descendants of Shackleton's 'Endurance' expedition.
$100 Contest. [Last Updated: 6 February 2010]
The following sections are in preparation or at least being thought about:
Tobacco References
Antarctic Sledge Flags