Where an Antarctic Dream Took Flight
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- The Continent of Timeless Nature
- Senses of Antarctica
- The Land of Cold
- Antarctica: a Dreamer’s Destination
- The Edge of Civilisation
- The Realm of No One
- A Frontier of Science
- Antarctica: Where Ice Meets the Sea
- Echoes of White Wonder: My Trip to Antarctica
- Antarctica: Like Another Planet
- Endless White Horizons
Antarctica: Where Nature is Supreme
A Realm of Ancient Nature Facing The Perils of Climate Change
Senses of Antarctica
To know Antarctica intimately is to know its scent and its touch. A tiny stretch of water or land, seen up close, might not overwhelm like the sweeping view. Yet, it’s etched in memory when your hand slips into the cold water, faintly sticky with brine, and your fingers meet the fleeting shards and fragments of ice as the swift motorboat speeds along.
Sounds of Antarctica
Sounds, however, are ever-present in that place. They exist in daylight and darkness, near and far. They feel like they weave together all other sensations. Approach an iceberg closely, and you’ll hear the water lapping; gaze at the ice mountains from the island’s peak, and the distant roar of the ocean reaches you.
Colours of Antarcrica
However, Antarctica’s unique quality is this: it’s as if nature, playing with the building blocks of the world, a vast LEGO set, chose to use only a select few types of pieces and colors. And with these, it created something exceptionally elegant here.
Navigating Antarctica’s Shores…
The waters of the Antarctic are like the river Styx, which separates the terrestrial and underground worlds, the world of the living and the dead. It could be crossed by boat with a guide. But Antarctica is the opposite to the underground kingdom of Hades. It is cold and beautiful, but sometimes it seems just the same magically impregnable.
— Markiyan Prokhasko
The tender embrace of Antarctic grey…
The Oneness of Water, Sky, And Ice
What’s The Draw of it All?
It’s about the dreamers who seek the planet’s edge and the stars beyond.
Echoes of Humanity: Tracing History in The Antarctic Ice
Imagine an unprecedented landscape, a touch barren, a touch enigmatic, bordering on the surreal. There, in a volcanic crater that feels like a pirate’s hideaway, in the early winter’s taste of summer, your eyes first fall upon the shattered remains of human endeavor from a hundred years past. Whalers, by their very nature, were figures outside the ordinary. Yet, this could be a glimpse into a rudimentary lunar settlement of the near future. And all this on the very first day, the very first island.
Time stands still in this panoramic view of Deception Island, where the stark beauty of a quasi-extraterrestrial landscape meets the enduring evidence of human activity.
These abandoned old whaling oil tanks, scattered along the shore, echo a chapter of history now fading into the dramatic, otherworldly scenery of our own planet.
An Unexpected Repository of Historical Heritage, a Landscape Dotted With Sites Unlike Any Other
Note: Watch this video about Wordie House Antarctic museum with English subtitles.
Antarctica: For All Humankind
Vernadsky Station: An Iconic Center of Antarctic Science And History, Formerly Known as Faraday
Leisure time at the Faraday Bar, Vernadsky Station, Antarctica.
Cold Marine Antarctica
An overwhelming sense of freedom took hold. It was as if the story of the Count of Monte Cristo had burst forth and enveloped me – the moment when the hero, embarking on his magnificent yacht into the boundless sea after years of suffering. All of this surrounding environment felt like something from another dimension trying to break into my existence. I reflected: even if I were to turn back this very moment, I have already seen so much, received so much, that I couldn’t have even seriously imagined just a few short months ago.
An overwhelming sense of freedom took hold. It was as if the story of the Count of Monte Cristo had burst forth and enveloped me – the moment when the hero, embarking on his magnificent yacht into the boundless sea after years of suffering. All of this surrounding environment felt like something from another dimension trying to break into my existence. I reflected: even if I were to turn back this very moment, I have already seen so much, received so much, that I couldn’t have even seriously imagined just a few short months ago.
— Markiyan Prokhasko
Immerse yourself in the audio version of the “Well, this is Antarctica” chapter from Markiyan Prokhasko’s “The Dream of Antarctica,” voiced by Serhii Trukhimovych.
Reminder: English subtitles are available – please turn them on.
The Land of Adventure
A place where encounters defy imagination…
It’s hard to wrap your head around it: in the uninhabited wilderness, two captains of two vessels met purely by chance, and following a day packed with adventures, they decided to dine together.
— Markiyan Prokhasko
Antarctica: Like Another Planet
A Canvas of Ice and Sky
Panoramic views of Antarctica…
Amidst the Antarctic Isles…
