The Northern Party at the South Magnetic Pole. Photographer Douglas Mawson 1909. Courtesy Mawson Collection South Australian Museum
We recently posted about the centennial of Robert Falcon Scott‘s departure on his ill-fated expedition to reach the South Pole. Now the Australian National Maritime Museum will host a new exhibit, the Quest for the South Magnetic Pole. The quest to locate the magnetic pole is more challenging than I had ever imagined. Apparently it can shift by as much as 200 km per day. Fitting perhaps, Quest for the South Magnetic Pole is a travelling exhibition developed by the South Australian Maritime Museum and the South Australian Museum with support from Visions of Australia. The exhibit will be on display from July 2nd to the tenth of October.
We are five days late but nevertheless would like to wish 
Two species of Asian carp, the bighead and the silver, were imported in the US in the 1970s by catfish farmers to eat algae in ponds. In flood in the 1990s, Asian trout escaped in the Mississippi River basin have been multiplying wildly and heading north. A few days ago an 20 pound Asian bighead carp was caught by a fisherman in Illinois’s Lake Calumet, on the South Side of Chicago. That is north of the electric fences installed to stop the carp and only six miles from Lake Michigan.
In 1898, the 
An interested court case between a private salvor and the State of New York appears to have been settled in favor of the state. The salvor, Northeast Research, claimed the 19th century schooner, which it claims is the Caledonia.
It says something about our society that a missing prop from a classic movie, specifically Bruce, the mechanical shark from
Happy Solstice to All. One way that at least some New Yorkers mark the beginning of the summer is to observe or participate in the