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Our planet’s precession is scarcely noticeable during anyone’s lifetime, but across history, it has had enormous effects

It was just after breakfast somewhere on the Canadian side of Lake Superior when we gathered midship on Deck 6 of the Viking Octantis and waited to be escorted to the “secret” Deck 7. Would the wind scuttle things again or would the scientific highlight of an expedition voyage through the Great Lakes finally happen?

"If anyone, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him -- it means just what Concord and Lexington meant; what Bunker Hill meant; which was, in short, the rising up of a valiant young people against an old tyranny to establish the most momentous doctrine that the world had ever known -- the right of men to their own selves and to their liberties." -Henry Ward Beecher

I just returned from two weeks in Antarctica and the Falkland Islands exploring, camping and learning the southern stars. Let me take you there.

I just returned from two weeks in Antarctica and the Falkland Islands exploring, camping and learning the southern stars. Let me take you there.

I just returned from two weeks in Antarctica and the Falkland Islands exploring, camping and learning the southern stars. Let me take you there.

I just returned from two weeks in Antarctica and the Falkland Islands exploring, camping and learning the southern stars. Let me take you there.

I just returned from two weeks in Antarctica and the Falkland Islands exploring, camping and learning the southern stars. Let me take you there.