Novel: Thomas Keneally: The Survivor (Angus & Robertson Ltd, 1969)
Thomas Keneally’s The Survivor is the second Antarctic novel by the same author featured in this blog. The first was Victim of the Aurora. It’s the story of an aging university man who was the only survivor of an ill-fated Australian Heroic Age -expedition. It’s a [...]

Check out Graham Racher’s photo of a penguin skulking about the sewers of Cape Town, South Africa:

Clearly, the photographer has surprised it in the middle of some devious act.

You’ll be interested to know that the penguins are queuing into a restaurant.

Note the antennae:

Film: Dominic Sena: Whiteout (U.S.A. 2009)
Whiteout is an Antarctic crime movie based on the comic book by Greg Rucka. Its a faithful yet plodding adaptation, combining good Antarctic detail with a leaden script and workmanlike direction.
The story is about an U.S. Marshal posted to the American base at the South Pole. A man is discovered [...]

The excellent Japanese culture blog Pink Tentacle reveals the story of the “Ningen”, strange white humanoids inhabiting the Antarctic coast.

Check out the rest here.

Novel: James Vance Marshall: White-Out (Soho Press, 1999)
James Vance Marshall’s White-Out is in many ways the quintessential Antarctic novel. Its centerpiece is a long sledging journey undertaken across the Antarctic Peninsula by a group of men fighting for survival. All the usual privations from hunger to the blizzards are featured in turn.
The story starts like [...]

Photo book: Paul Nicklen: Polar Obsession (National Geographic, 2009)
Polar Obsession is a collection of photos of the polar regions from National Geographic nature photographer Paul Nicklen’s career. The most impressive thing about Nicklen’s images is the feeling of action, life, even violence they evoke. His images are not mere portraits of animals. They convey animals [...]

National Geographic photographer Paul Nicklen explains how a leopard seal tried to teach him to catch and eat penguins in the waters off the coast of Antarctica:

Children’s book: Kenneth Hite & Christina Rodriguez: Antarctic Express (Atlas Games, 2009)
Ken Hite’s Antarctic Express sounds like a joke: it’s a children’s picture book version of H.P. Lovecraft’s Antarctic tale At the Mountains of Madness. Surprisingly, it’s pretty good, probably because it feels like it’s been done in all seriousness. I haven’t seen many tales [...]

English Russia has photos from the first Soviet Antarctic expedition, in 1955. Here’s a link to the original source.

Game designer and academician J. Tuomas Harviainen reviews my game Ikuisuuden laakso (The Valley of Eternity) in his blog:
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Compared to, say, Itras By or Stalker, it is a very simple game, almost a Forge-like one trick pony. Yet it does do its own thing really well, and it seems a very good game to start [...]

The antipenguins of my roleplaying game Ikuisuuden laakso (The Valley of Eternity) exist as Spore creatures, courtesy of user Tullius.
Check it out:

Pohjoismaisen roolipelaamisen seura ry julkaisee tämän vuoden Ropeconissa kaksi roolipeliä. Toinen on norjasta käännetty surrealistinen peli nimeltä Itran kaupunki ja toinen on oma pingviiniaiheinen esikoispelini Ikuisuuden laakso.

Ikuisuuden laakso on paikka, jonne pingviinit tulevat kuolemaan. Etelämantereen loputon jäätikkö on armoton vihollinen. Siellä selviävät vain rohkeimmat pingviinisankarit ja katalimmat antipingviinit.
Pingviinisankari elää elämänsä yksin. Hän on nähnyt asioita, [...]

Non-fiction: ed. Nancy Robinson Flannery: This Everlasting Silence - The love letters of Paquita Delprat and Douglas Mawson 1911-1914 (Melbourne University Press, 2000)
The Australian Douglas Mawson is an Antarctic explorer contemporary with his more famous colleagues Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott and Ernst Shackleton. He’s less known because he never attempted stunts like being first [...]