Tag: Antarctica

I was lucky to start planning the trip in the summer of 2019. My dream came true in February 2020, a month before the Covid pandemic hit globally. The bunk bed on the ship was all mine. I learned that my Chinese roommate hadn’t made it out of his country as Covid was already a big concern i...

Antarctica is, legally speaking, a no man’s land. Since the signing of the Antarctic Treaty in 1961, the continent has been officially non-national. Antarctica is the earth as the earth was before people tried to claim it, when we were instead claimed by it: people of the plains, river people,...