I’ve spent almost eight years learning about the lives and experiences of these forgotten explorers.
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In 1898, a pioneering Antarctic expedition was stuck in sea ice for over a year. In 2024, that area is open water.
It’s undoubtedly exciting news, but polar exploration has a poor record when it comes to diversity and we need to rethink the values and attitudes that underpin our fascination.
Antarctic research has historically been a bastion of men from Europe and North America. Only now is the field opening up to women and people of colour. And there’s a way to go yet.
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Professor and Associate Dean - Diversity, Belonging, Inclusion, and Equity, Australian National University
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Reader in Environmental History, Department of History, University of Bristol
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Senior Research Associate in Physical Oceanography, University of Tasmania
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Research Associate, University of Tasmania
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Associate Professor, Oceans Ice and Climate, University of Tasmania
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Lecturer in Cultural Studies in Health
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Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London