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The Elements of an Essential Explorer's Pack

According to Atlas Obscura readers.
Eric Grundhauser August 1, 2018
What's in your bag?
exploration

Tell Us About the Items You Never Go Exploring Without

What's in your adventuring kit?
Eric Grundhauser July 18, 2018
objects of intrigue

Greenland’s Hand-Sized Wooden Maps Were Used for Storytelling, Not Navigation

These distinctive artifacts are clues to how the Tunumiit people saw the world.
Hans Harmsen May 2, 2018
Antarctica was once covered in forests instead of ice.
forests

Why Antarctica's Prehistoric Forests Might Foreshadow Its Future

Hidden on the frozen continent are clues to its greener past.
Sarah Laskow April 3, 2018
Deerfoot and Southern Girl aboard the Jacob Ruppert, about to take off for Antarctica. (The expedition's cow-tender, Edward Cox, is milking Deerfoot.)
exploration

In 1933, Four Cows Went to Antarctica

It was not their idea.
Cara Giaimo March 22, 2018
The USS <em>Juneau</em>, in New York Harbor.
exploration

Found: The Wreck of the USS Juneau, Where 5 Brothers From Iowa Died

An incredible St. Patrick's day discovery.
Natasha Frost March 21, 2018
So far north, the sun never really sets.
exploration

Revisiting an Explorer's Northwest Passage 'Disappointment' After Nearly 230 Years

The 18th-century fur trader Alexander Mackenzie thought he was a failure, but he was wrong. He was just too early.
Brian Castner March 13, 2018
Some actual mountains encountered (and sketched) by Ross.
exploration

How a Fake Mountain Range Slowed Down Arctic Exploration

The 19th-century naval officer John Ross had a knack for seeing land where it wasn't.
Cara Giaimo March 9, 2018
Château d'Abbadie
Hendaye, France

Château d'Abbadie

The eclectic observatory castle of a 19th-century astronomer and explorer.
Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart’s signatures and route lines.
New York, New York

Fliers and Explorers Globe

A prized globe signed by Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh sits in the Brooklyn office of the American Geographical Society.
The largest paper fragment recovered from Blackbeard's wreck is about the size of a quarter.
pirates

Found: Scraps of a Book From the Wreck of Blackbeard's Flagship

Apparently pirates spent some of their free time reading about sea voyages.
Vittoria Traverso January 8, 2018
A map of the "summer aromas" of Newport, Rhode Island.
maps

Learning About Cities by Mapping Their Smells

The U.K. artist Kate McLean is trying to preserve our olfactory memory.
Vittoria Traverso December 8, 2017
Ada Blackjack, pictured with the rest of the expedition to Wrangel Island.
exploration

Ada Blackjack, the Forgotten Sole Survivor of an Odd Arctic Expedition

In the early 1920s, 23-year-old Blackjack endured a two-year stay on frosty Wrangel Island.
Tessa Hulls December 6, 2017
For sale: a Waldseemüller world map in the form of a set of gores for a globe, 1507.
maps

In 1507, This Map Used the Name 'America' for the First Time

Only five copies of this early map of the whole globe still exist, and one is now for sale in London.
Sarah Laskow November 27, 2017
Steller's sea cow was hunted to extinction fewer than thirty years after being described.
exploration

Found: The Massive Skeleton of a Steller's Sea Cow

A 17-foot-long sirenian emerges on a remote Russian island.
Vittoria Traverso November 17, 2017
Classic and chocolate-covered Kendal Mint Cakes.
Gastro Obscura

Kendal Mint Cake

The original energy bar.
The Aven Underwater Museum.
Atsimo-Andrefana, Madagascar

Aven Cave

This underwater cave in Madagascar is home to what is thought to be the country's largest fossil graveyard.
A visitor to the Louvre is tempted by Canaletto's 18th-century painting "The Rialto Bridge in Venice."
wunderkammers

Why Can't People Stop Touching Museum Exhibits?

After years of watching, one researcher thinks she's got the answer.
Cara Giaimo November 10, 2017