Arctic Expeditions

Constant Wonder - Radio Archive, Episode 876

Feb 17, 2021 7:00 pm
52:49 mins

Andrea Pitzer tells the story of Dutch explorer William Barents, who was shipwrecked in the Arctic in the 1590s. Maryn McKenna on the quest to find the cause of the 1918 Spanish flu in the permafrost of a remote Norwegian town.

Episode Segments

Episode Segments

Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World

32m

Andrea Pitzer tells the story of Dutch explorer William Barents, who was shipwrecked in the Arctic in the 1590s.

Looking for the Spanish Flu in Norwegian Permafrost

21m

Maryn McKenna on the quest to find the cause of the 1918 Spanish flu in the permafrost of a remote Norwegian town.