Terra Nova: The British Antarctic Expedition

The Morbid Curiosity Podcast

Hallie Lloyd

Cryptid, Serialkiller, Science, Disease, Medicine, Scary, Skeleton, Historyofmedicine, Social Sciences, Ghost, History, Medical, Anthropology, Monsters, Archeology, Murder, Creepy, Skeptic, Paranormal, Prison

4.8 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

CW: Death of humans and animals

During the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, Robert Falcon Scott made two attempts to reach the South Pole. His second attempt was his last. In this episode, Hallie tells the story of the 1911 race to the South Pole, the adventure and the tragedy.

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0:00.0	This episode contains discussions of injury and death of animals and humans. If these topics are
0:07.2	triggers for you, this may be a good episode to skip.
0:28.6	Humans are fascinated by gore and violence, but even more so the mysterious and unsolved. Interest in these disturbing and unpleasant subjects is called morbid curiosity, and it has gripped millions of people throughout the ages.
0:39.4	I am one of those people.
0:44.4	My name is Hallie, and this is the Morbid Curiosity podcast. Music The turn of the 19th century was an era of exploration, specifically polar exploration. Hundreds of European explorers set
1:14.4	their sights on the Arctic and the Antarctic. We discussed one of these explorers already, Sir John
1:20.7	Franklin, who attempted to find the Northwest Passage, an Arctic route to the Pacific Ocean.
1:27.3	Unfortunately, he and his crew froze to
1:29.9	death after suffering starvation, cannibalism, and a long, cold, desperate march across King William
1:36.7	Island. Many countries raced to plant their flags at the Poles. The British had been attempting
1:43.2	to conquer the Arctic, also called the North Pole, since 1553.
1:48.0	Numerous attempts were made by many European countries throughout the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries.
1:55.0	In 1903, Norwegian explorer Raul Domenson finally traversed the Northwest Passage. On April 6, 1909, American Robert Peary
2:06.6	claimed to be the first person in recorded history to reach the North Pole, although whether he actually
2:12.8	reached the pole is disputed. It seemed the Arctic had been conquered. The focus quickly shifted to the
2:20.2	Antarctic, also called the South Pole. The first documented sighting of the Antarctic continent
2:26.8	occurred in January of 1820. In 1823, James Waddell, a British sealer, sailed into what is now known as the Waddell Sea.
2:38.0	Waddell found very favorable ice conditions, which allowed him to set a record for the furthest south.
2:45.0	In the late 1830s, French, American, and British attempts were made to land on the continent after the approximate
2:52.3	location of the Southern magnetic pole was determined by James Clark Ross. The first documented
2:59.2	landing on mainland Antarctica was that of American sealer Mercator Cooper, which occurred in early
3:06.3	1853. The heroic age of Antarctic exploration
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