Hi, Allegra. Nice to see you.

Hi, Dylan.

How are you doing?

I'm doing great.

Thanks for coming on the show today.

As I've gotten to know you over the last three months, I have come to know something about you,

which is that you are very, very, very interested in Arctic and I think particularly Antarctic history.

You really like Antarctica.

I really like Antarctica.

Yeah.

This is a thing that I know to be true about you.

And so this came about because there is a kind of, there's kind of like a celebrity in

Antarctica, a very famous resident.

Everyone who has gone to Antarctica in the last number of decades knows this character,

even if they haven't met them directly.

It's kind of flashy.

It's like pretty stands out in a crowd. He also really stands out on the Antarctic landscape. So who is this character we're talking about?

We are talking about none other than Ivan the Teribus, one of the most famous and long-term residents of that region.

And Ivan is, as the name describes, a big bus that you can ride in when you arrive at McMurdo Station.

Yes.

Today, we give our tribute to Ivan, the Tara Bus.

I'm Dylan Theris, and this is Atlas of Skira, a celebration of the world's strange,

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