5 Comments
User's avatar
Richard Duwell-Trumbell's avatar

Really enjoyed this.

Would love a future episode on the long-horizon environmental prospects of the British Antarctic Territory: how habitable parts of it might realistically become over the coming century or two, what climatic constraints would remain, and what plausible pathways might exist for permanent civic settlement.

Doaa Abdel-Motaal in her inspiring 2016 book

_Antarctica: The Battle for the Seventh Continent_ claimed that the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula, offshore islands and archipelagos South Orkney Islands (Drake's Elizabethides) and South Shetland Islands (aka Dirck Gerritzs Land/Drake's Land of 18th century cartography) are already habitable climate-wise, like Greenland:

https://books.google.fi/books?id=qXrCEAAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&vq=georgia&dq=doaa+abdel-motaal+antarctica:+the+battle+for+the+seventh+continent&hl=fi&source=gbs_navlinks_s

Feels like a fascinating frontier question — not just for Britain, but perhaps as part of a wider revival of serious European territorial imagination in Antarctica (especially Belgi[c]a Australis in the Dirck Gerritzs [Palmer] Archipelago in Anvers, Brabant, Brooklyn and Ghent Islands, Nova Gothia in the Nordenskjöld Coast and Nova Finlandia in the Finlandia Foothills of Alexander Islands and the Palosuo Islands):

https://christianstatesmanmag.substack.com/p/tvision-beyond-the-ice-a-manifesto

Stan's avatar

Do you have an email for the space station?

Calum Drysdale's avatar

Glad you like the pod! Message https://www.instagram.com/anglofuturismpodcast/ to get in touch!

Stan's avatar

Another great episode. I’ve been a fan for a while & would love to get in touch with you all about an exhibition I’ve recently had in Phoenix Arizona. I’m not big on the Twitter but you can find more of my work on the Instagram here @stanbuglass all the best!