Journey to the End of the Earth: Tishani Doshi's Poetry and Prose

Journey to the end of the Earth
Tishani Doshi
JUDE JOSEPH, PGT ENGLISH, KVS

• She is a poet, journalist and dancer based in
Chennai.
• She writes a blog titled "Hit or Miss" on
Cricinfo
• She is also collaborated with cricketer Muttiah
Muralitharan on his biography
• She works as a freelance writer and worked
with choreographer Chandralekha

• Countries of the Body (poetry)
• Conflict and Instability (with [Tobias Hill] and
Aoife Mannix)
• The Pleasure Seekers (fiction)
• Everything Begins Elsewhere (poetry)
• Fountainville (fiction), Seren Books
• The Adulterous Citizen: poems, stories, essays
• Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods

T h e s h i p h a s -
t w o p a s s e n g e r
decks, dining rooms,
a bar, a library, and
a s a u n a , a n d
accommodates 54
passengers.

• It is an ice-strengthened ship,
• built in Finland in 1982
• originally used for oceanographic research.
• In 1998 she was fully refurbished to serve as a
research ship for Arctic and Antarctic work
• she is used also for expedition cruising.
• She is named after the Russian oceanographer
Yuly Shokalsky.

Gondwana was
half of the
Pangaea
supercontinent,
along with a
northern
supercontinent
known as
Laurasia.

Gondwana was an ancient supercontinent that broke up about
180 million years ago. The continent eventually split into
landmasses we recognize today: Africa, South America, Australia,
Antarctica, the Indian subcontinent and the Arabian Peninsula.

• The familiar continents of today are
really only a temporary arrangement
in a long history of continental
movement. Landmasses on Earth are
in a constant state of slow motion, and
have, at multiple times, come together
as one.

India moving
towards the
Eurasian
Plate which
resulted in the
formation of
the Himalayas.

• A cordillera is an extensive chain of
mountains or mountain ranges.
• The term is particularly applied to the
various ranges of the Andes of South
America, and less frequently to other
mountain ranges in the "ridge" that rims
the Pacific Ocean.

• PRECAMBRIAN time covers the
vast bulk of the Earth's history,
starting with the planet's creation
about 4.5 billion years ago and
ending with the emergence of
complex, multicelled life-forms
almost four billion years later.

• The Precambrian is the earliest of the
geologic ages, which are marked by different
layers of sedimentary rock. Laid down over
millions of years, these rock layers contain a
permanent record of the Earth's past,
including the fossilized remains of plants and
animals buried when the sediments were
formed.

• It is a narrow body of water between
Antarctica and South America that serves as
an ocean-going connecting point between the
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
• Named after the English navigator, Sir Francis
Drake
• This stretch of water is frequented by icebergs,
huge waves and plagued by gale-force winds.

very small, length 0.5 - 2.0 mm
there are thousands of species,
of which many live on animals.
They have 8 legs and a body
with little or no segmentation.
egg, larval, nymphal and adult
stages.

• tiny two-winged flies
that superficially
resemble mosquitoes.
• midges are harmless,
with small mouthparts
that are not elongated
into a piercing
structure for blood
feeding. JUDE JOSEPH, PGT ENGLISH, KVS

• The Western
Antarctic Ice Sheet
is the segment of the
continental ice sheet
that covers West
Antarctica, the
portion of Antarctica
on the Western
Hemisphere.

West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS)
Temperature of the
WAIS seems to rise
at alarming levels.
The WAIS is
classified as a
marine-based ice
sheet, meaning that
its bed lies well below
sea level and its
edges flow into
floating ice shelves.

How fast sea
level rises will
depend a lot
on how fast
the West
Antarctic ice
sheet
crumbles.

• The Gulf Stream, together with its northern
extension, the North Atlantic Drift, is a
powerful, warm, and swift Atlantic ocean
current that originates in the Gulf of Mexico,
exits through the Strait of Florida, and follows
the eastern coastlines of the United States
and Newfoundland before crossing the
Atlantic Ocean.

• The Gulf Stream splits in two, with the
northern stream crossing to northern
Europe and the southern stream
recirculating off West Africa.
• The Gulf Stream influences the climate of
the east coast of North America from Florida
to Newfoundland, and the west coast of
Europe.

Founder, Executive
Director & Expedition
Leader
Educator, social
entrepreneur and
adventurer

• Geoff made his first expeditions to the Arctic
and Antarctic in 1994.
• He was profoundly inspired by these
cornerstones of our global ecosystem
• He has since led more than 120 expeditions
to the Polar Regions & dozens of journeys
to the most remote corners of the planet.

• Geoff is the Founder and Executive Director of
Students on Ice
• An award-winning program that has taken more
than 2,500 youth, educators, elders, experts,
scientists, leaders and artists from around the
world on educational journeys to the Arctic and
Antarctic
• It supports initiatives related to youth, education
and the environment in the Polar regions.

• Their mandate -
–to educate the world’s youth about the
importance of the Polar Regions
– to support their continued growth and to
inspire initiatives that contribute to global
sustainability.
• The SOI Foundation is internationally recognized
as a pioneer and leader in Polar Education.

Phytoplankton is the base of several aquatic food webs.

• They provide food for a wide range of sea
creatures including whales, shrimp, snails, and
jellyfish.
• Phytoplankton, also known as microalgae,
contain chlorophyll and require sunlight in
order to live and grow. Most phytoplankton
float in the upper part of the ocean, where
sunlight penetrates the water.

Tadpole Island - an Antarctic Island

Gore-Tex is a waterproof,
breathable fabric membrane.
Invented in 1969, Gore-Tex
can repel liquid water while
allowing water vapor to pass
through and is designed to be
a lightweight, waterproof fabric
for all-weather use.
It is composed of Teflon.

Crabeater Seals

• They are medium- to large-sized (over 2 m in
length)
• relatively slender and pale-colored
• found primarily on the free-floating pack ice that
extends seasonally out from the Antarctic coast
• they use the ice pack as a platform for resting,
mating, social aggregation and accessing their prey.
• They are by far the most abundant seal species in
the world.

Mammoth, any member of an extinct group of elephants
found as fossils.The woolly, Northern, or Siberian
mammoth is by far the best-known of all mammoths.

The woolly
rhinoceros is an
extinct species of
rhinoceros that was
common throughout
Europe and northern
Asia during the
Pleistocene epoch.

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