From Seal Meat to Ice Sheets: A Century of Reporting From Antarctica

From Seal Meat to Ice Sheets: A Century of Reporting From Antarctica

Eight weeks is the length of the current expedition of the Araon, an icebreaker that is carrying dozens of scientists and two New York Times journalists to Antarctica. That’s a long time for a reporter to spend on assignment anywhere, let alone at the bottom of the planet. Russell Owen clocked 14 months. From late 1928 to early 1930, Mr. Owen filed near-daily dispatches for The Times from a landmark Antarctic expedition led by the U.S. Navy comm…