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Fabian Gottlieb Thaddeus von Bellingshausen (September 20, 1778–January 13, 1852) served as a naval officer of the Russian Empire and commanded the second Russian expedition to circumnavigate the globe. During this expedition Bellingshausen became one of three people to first see the continent of Antarctica, on January 27, 1820, three days before Edward Bransfield (a captain in the British Navy) sighted land, and ten months before Nathaniel Palmer (an American sealer out of Stonington, Connecticut) did so in November 1820. On January 27 the two ship expedition led by Von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev reached a point within 32 km (20 miles) of the Antarctic mainland and saw ice fields there.
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Emilio Marcos Palma (born January 7, 1978) was the first known person to be born on the continent of Antarctica. He was also born farther south than any other human being in known history. The son of Argentine parents, Emilio's birth took place in Fortín Sargento Cabral at the Esperanza Base near the tip of the Antarctic peninsula. Since his parents were Argentine citizens, and he was born at an Argentine base located on Argentine claimed territories, he was immediately granted citizenship of Argentina. He is featured in the Guinness Book of World Records as the only person in history known to be the first born on a continent. However, Solveig Gunbjörg Jacobsen, born in the island territory of South Georgia, is sometimes claimed as the actual first Antarctica birth due to that territory being considered part of Antarctica for some purposes. Additionally, as the base also falls within the claimed British Antarctic Territory, and he was born before 1983 when British nationality by birth was automatically acquired, he could also claim British nationality.
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The Thing (1982): directed by John Carpenter and starring Kurt Russell. Taglines: Man is The Warmest Place to Hide. / Look closely at your neighbours. Don't trust anybody. / The ultimate in alien terror. Plot outline: Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people that it kills.
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On November 28, 1979, an Air New Zealand DC-10 on a sightseeing trip crashed into Mount Erebus on Ross Island, killing all 257 people on board.
In March 2002 the 5,500 km² (2,120 square statute mile) Iceberg B-22 broke off from the Thwaites Ice Tongue and the Larsen B ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula, and shattered into small fragments. The ice shelf was 200 metres thick and had a surface area of 3,250 square kilometres.
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Polar drift is a geological phenomenon caused by variations in the flow of molten iron (magma) in Earth's outer core, resulting in changes in the orientation of Earth's magnetic field, and hence the position of the magnetic north pole. The magnetic north pole is approximately 965 kilometers from the geographic north pole. The pole drifts considerably each day, and moves about 10 to 40 km per year as a result of this phenomenon.
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Polar Bear by Queen
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Mister Freeze (Dr. Victor Fries) (Pronounced as Victor "Freese" or "Freeze") is a DC Comics supervillain, an enemy of Batman. Created by Bob Kane, he first appeared in Batman #121 (February 1959). Mr. Freeze was one of many gimmick-focused comic book villains. He was a mad scientist who plotted crimes around ice and cold. In most incarnations, this desire stems from a medical condition in which his body temperature was permanently lowered and he required a refrigerated “ice suit” to survive.
Originally called Mr. Zero, he was renamed and popularized by the 1960s Batman television series, in which he was played by several actors. Over two decades later, a television adaptation of Batman revitalized him once again. Batman: The Animated Series, retold Mr. Freeze’s origin, introducing his terminally ill, cryogenically frozen wife, which greater explained his obsession with ice and need to build a criminal empire to raise research funds. The animated series version was also more calm and composed than previous, campier versions and the comic book version has been altered to resemble it. Elements of this personal tragedy, but not Freeze's calm demeanor, were incorporated into the 1997 film Batman & Robin, in which he was portrayed by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Oogruk (Bearded seal) Flippers (from The Eskimo Cookbook)
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The following are (an amusing use of a word or phrase which has several meanings or which sounds like another word) that use the word ‘cold’:
Don't speed in the frozen north because the police will stop you cold.
He was going to step into a bucket of ice, but got cold feet.
To plan beforehand for a cold winter is pre-furable.
If you're alone and get too cold you might become ice-olated.
A skier who loses a race on a cold day will have a frosty disposition.
An adventurer paddling on a northern river got cold and lit a fire in his boat, only to discover that you cannot have your kayak and heat it too.
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"Below the 40th latitude there is no law; below the 50th no god; below the 60th no common sense and below the 70th no intelligence whatsoever." (Kim Stanley Robinson)
"Great God ! this is an awful place." (Scott, referring to the South Pole)
"Better a live donkey than a dead lion." (Shackleton, after failing to reach the south pole by 100 km)
"For scientific leadership, give me Scott; for swift and efficient travel, Amundsen; but when you are in a hopeless situation, when there seems to be no way out, get on your knees and pray for Shackleton." (Sir Raymond Priestley)
"Men Wanted for hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful. Honor and recognition in case of success." (Ernest Shackleton, newspaper announcement before his Endurance Expedition)
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McMurdo Station is the largest community in Antarctica and a science research center operated by the United States through the United States Antarctic Program, a branch of the National Science Foundation.
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Better the cold blast of winter than the hot breath of a pursuing elephant. (Chinese)
Just because men do not like the cold, Heaven will not stop the winter. (Chinese)
Let him who is cold blow the fire. (French)
Cold teaches a man how to steal charcoal. (Moroccan)
Don't praise your furnace when the house is cold. (Russian)
No wind is too cold for lovers. (Ukranian)
The cold strengthens you more than hunger. (Yiddish)
Source: Creative Proverbs
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