Frequent contributor and correspondent Sweetness sent me Scientists Find Active Volcano in Antarctica, an interesting read about antarctic heat sources and a possible cause of deglaciation at (at least) the southern pole. What makes this interesting is that the volcano is still active. Think of it. The heat of the earth and the cold of the earth combined in one place. I remember taking a steambath with some folks up near the arctic a long time ago. As long as you didn't leave the hut you were warm. Very warm. Sweatily warm and wrapped in a heat that exhausted you as it drained the poisons from your body and blood. The moment you stepped outside?
Brrrr!
A Buried Volcano The last time this antarctic volcano erupted was during the time of Alexander the Great, roughly 207-325BC. There were glaciers in Antarctica at that time and they trapped the story in their icy cores.
I wonder if much longer ago, when Antarctica wasn't so antarctic, primitive humans, ocean-farers blown far off course such as those who made their way to Australia some 50-60,000 years ago, basked briefly in the heat of this volcano and told the earth it was getting cold, please shut the door to the hut, and wondered whether the god of heat or the god of cold would prevail.
Their story, if it exists at all, is buried under tons of ice. Something for future generations to discover. Unless the heat of this still active volcano melts the present glacier completely, in which case we can tell our long ago ancestors "The god of heat finally one. Took a while. And this round, anyway."
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