Micro-Antarctica 🇦🇶❄️

🇦🇶 Unofficial profile about #Antarctica and #micronations that claim territories in the white continent. 📬|DM open|

[Antarctic Heritage @InspireExplore]

#OnThisDay in 1961, Olav Olavsen Bjaaland died. Bjaaland was a champion skier, explorer and most notably, one of the first five men to reach the South Pole during Amundsen's South Pole 'Fram' Expedition of 1910-12.

Born 5 March 1873 in the inland county of Telemark, Norway, Bjaaland became one of the best skiers in Norway. In 1909, on his way to participate in a Club Alpin Français skiing competition in Chamonix, France, he had a chance meeting with Roald Amundsen in the railway restaurant at Lübeck. During this encounter Bjaaland impressed Amundsen so much with his home-made ski equipment and obvious skiing talent, that he was invited on Amundsen’s expedition to the North Pole, which then turned into the race against Captain Robert Falcon Scott to the South Pole.

During his time in Antarctica, Bjaaland and Jorgen Stubberud built the explorer hut 'Framheim' and over the winter worked on sledges and skis. He was a dog driver on the expedition to the South Pole.

Amundsen gave a mountain in Antarctica his name: Mount Bjaaland.

Bjaaland was the last surviving member of the Norwegian South Pole team which included Amundsen, Hilmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel and Oscar Wisting. He even lived to witness the advances made during the International Geophysical Year (IGY) of 1957-58, including the construction of the permanent South Pole base named Amundsen–Scott in honor of his expedition leader.

📸 Olav Olavsen Bjaaland, Fram Museum

#OTD #inspire #explore #discover #conserve #Antarctica

[Micro-Antarctica 🇦🇶❄️ @MFACentum]

@inach_gob Felicidades @inach_gob

[Sung-Ho Kang @polarkangkopri]

Antarctica’s Long Memory, Our Shared Future
Antarctica may be far away, but its future is connected to ours.
https://t.co/GdsiYWrMuw

A 3-million-year simulation suggests that Antarctic ice can change rapidly when climate thresholds are crossed.

What happened in the distant past matters today: rising CO₂ and warming oceans can affect ice, sea level, and coastlines around the world.

[Grand Duchy of Flandrensis @Flandrensis_Gov]

#NowForClimate

[Grand Duchy of Flandrensis @Flandrensis_Gov]

International Plastic Free Day

[Micro-Antarctica 🇦🇶❄️ @MFACentum]

New @Flandrensis_Gov flag, since 22 November 2025. 🎁

https://t.co/A71KDoaLnh

🔵⚪️🟡⚫️
#flag #vexillology

[Grand Duchy of Flandrensis @Flandrensis_Gov]

#NowForClimate #forest #Flandrensis #micronation

[Antártida Maps 🇦🇶 @AntartidaMaps]

Ya hice sobre las Lenguas...
🛶 Germánicas
🫒 Romances / Latinas
🌏 Orientales (↓)
☀️ Eslavas

https://t.co/bknjtqxOMd

[Grand Duchy of Flandrensis @Flandrensis_Gov]

Happy World Penguin Day! 🐧💙
Haphen Œorld Pangåjen Dai! 🐧💙
Did you know? Our islands host 10,000 breeding pairs of Adélie penguins and are also home to 3,000 emperor penguins.
#WorldPenguinDay #Penguin #Antarctica #Flandrensis

[Antártida Maps 🇦🇶 @AntartidaMaps]

Distribución de Las Lenguas Eslavas en la Antártida 🗣️☀️🇦🇶

[Grand Duchy of Flandrensis @Flandrensis_Gov]

Half a year ago, we introduced a symbol that reflects our identity, value and mission. Since then, our flag has found a place in homes, offices and events around the world. Thank you to everyone who embraced it! 💙🤍💛🖤 #flag #micronation

[Micro-Antarctica 🇦🇶❄️ @MFACentum]

@Flandrensis_Gov 👏🏽

[UK Antarctic Heritage Trust @AntarcticHT]

What if Antarctica had legal rights and its own voice?

Alok explores that question with Shackleton Medal-winner Cormac Cullinan in episode three of our podcast.

🎧 Search ‘A Voyage to Antarctica' on all major podcast platforms

🙏 Kindly supported by HX Expeditions

[Grand Duchy of Flandrensis @Flandrensis_Gov]

It is 22 November🥁
New flag, same mission ... 💙🤍💛🖤 #flag #vexillology #micronation

[UK Antarctic Heritage Trust @AntarcticHT]

From Antarctica to your doorstep ✉️🐧

This season, the Port Lockroy team sent 366.5kg of mail – around 50,000 postcards.

From Port Lockroy, the sacks travel by ship to Stanley in the Falklands, where they’re hand-sorted before flying to the UK and onwards around the world.

[INACH @inach_gob]

🇦🇶🇨🇱Andrea Peña, jefa de Comunicaciones y Educación del INACH, nos entrega una importante noticia sobre la Feria Antártica Escolar 2026. #chile #ciencia #antartica https://t.co/0V28B1tnM8

[Sung-Ho Kang @polarkangkopri]

If Penguins Disappear from Earth
Protecting penguins is not only about saving Antarctica. It is about protecting the fragile web of life we all depend on.
https://t.co/S3XoNcVx97

Penguins connect sea ice, krill, whales, seals, plankton, carbon, and climate. When sea ice disappears, chicks lose the ground they need to survive. When krill decline, the Antarctic food web begins to shake.

Penguins are not just beloved animals. They are living signals from a changing planet. If they struggle, the message is clear: the balance between ice, ocean, life, and climate is under stress.

[Antarctic Heritage @InspireExplore]

After 36-hours of grueling travel, Shackleton, Worsley and Crean successfully arrived at Stromness Whaling Station, South Georgia #OnThisDay in 1916. The men had traversed what had been regarded 'inaccessible' country by whalers.

On their final morning, the men were preparing breakfast when Shackleton heard what he thought was the sound of a whistle from the whaling station. They ate in silence and again heard the whistle sound at exactly 7am. As they headed towards Stromness the route became dramatically steep once again, and they had to cut steps into the ice. With great difficultly they reached the shore of Fortuna Bay, proceeding on what they thought was level ground, only for Crean to break straight through the ice of the frozen lake right up to his waist. Lying flat to distribute their weight, they men made their way off the fragile surface.

Approaching the whaling station, the trio tried to make themselves presentable - in Shackleton’s words "for the thought there might be women at the station made us painfully conscious of our uncivilised appearance."

"Our beards were long and our hair was matted. We were unwashed, and the garments which we had worn for nearly a year without a change were tattered and stained." - Sir Ernest Shackleton

The first two men they saw, the first humans they had seen in nearly eighteen months, ran away at the sight of them. The station manager, Mr Sorlle, who had entertained them when the 'Endurance’ crew had first arrived at Stromness, didn't recognise them as they appeared on his doorstep. After recounting the details of their ordeal, they were finally able to bathe, an experience that Worsley described as "worth all that we had been through to get". Sorlle immediately arranged rescue for the three men stranded at King Haakon Bay, on the other side of South Georgia.

#explore #discover #antarctica #OTD #shackleton #endurance

📷Shackleton and party 31 May 1916 after arrival at Port Stanley. © A G Bennett Collection, Jane Cameron National Archives. The Falkland Islands.

[Grand Duchy of Flandrensis @Flandrensis_Gov]

#NowForClimate

[Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition @AntarcticaSouth]

Tourism in Antarctica is growing rapidly, with over 115,000 visitors last season. But protections are not keeping pace. At #ATCM48 🇯🇵 Parties must move beyond site-by-site management and embrace a regional, conservation-driven approach:. https://t.co/rwNpBAPDEP #ProtectAntarctica