Exploration across the Commons

Posted by zyrcster in Across The Commons

Who doesn’t love a great adventure story? One replete with strange new lands, hard journeys across the high seas, and amazing new sights to behold . . .

Journey through the Commons and you might find …

… a voyage to Antarctica at the turn of the last century.

Aurora traversing loose pack ice entering the Durville Sea, Dec. 1913
State Library of New South Wales
Explorers headed toward the North Pole … Andree's Station at Danskoen, Spitzbergen, Norway
Library of Congress
… and the Inuit they find there. At Cape York - Group of Arctic Highlanders and Seamen of the Expedition
National Maritime Museum
Adventure beckoned in the then-New Frontier, as when Yosemite was encountered by Western travelers … Bridal Veil, 900 ft. Yosemite.
New York Public Library
… or the unknowns of South America. Cumulus beside the road
Field Museum
And then there is tomorrowland … View of Atlas missile launch
State Archives of Florida
… and outer space! Fingers, Loops, and Bays in the Crab Nebula (A supernova remnant and pulsar located 6000 light years from Earth in the constellation of Taurus.)
Smithsonian Institution

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