Taro And Jiro's Polar Survival
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 3, 2026
Antarctica has always been a proving ground for survival. Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance expedition saw twenty‑eight men endure shipwreck, d...
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The Antarctic Snow Cruiser
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 5, 2026
Somewhere on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica, buried beneath hundreds of feet of snow (or perhaps at the bottom of the ocean), lies an enor...
The Churches of Antarctica
Kaushik Patowary
May 30, 2022
In an article in Vice , Brian Merchant argues that the first structure that humans will probably build on Moon after they have completed bui...
Antarctic Oases
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 11, 2022
Antarctica is one of the most inhospitable places in this earth, with all-year-round freezing temperatures, violent katabatic winds and ice ...
Rectangular Iceberg
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 24, 2018
Nature follows specific laws, but results are often irregular and asymmetric like clouds and coastline and ocean waves. So when NASA scienti...
The Southern Pole of Inaccessibility
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 6, 2017
The cold hard stare of Lenin penetrating the icy air is the only thing you’ll come across the vast frozen landscape in this part of Antarcti...
Lava Lakes: The Exposed Guts of Volcanoes
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 21, 2016
Most volcanoes have a deep inner chamber of molten rocks, but this chamber is typically capped shut by cooled, solid rock. But sometimes the...
Places Where Three Time Zones Meet
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 17, 2015
When Italian mathematician Quirico Filopanti first sounded the idea of time zones in his book Miranda! published in 1858, he proposed that ...
Don Juan Pond: The Saltiest Body of Water on Earth
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 5, 2014
Don Juan Pond is a small, ankle-deep lake located in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica, nestled in Wright Valley between the Asgard Mou...
The Ghostly Remains of the Yacht “Mar Sem Fim”
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 12, 2013
Mar Sem Fim (“Endless Sea” in English) is a Brazilian yacht that was shipwrecked, sunk and subsequently got frozen in ice in Maxwell Bay of...
