Antarctica: An Explorer’s Archive by Rachel SimmonsThrough this personal archive, I engage with concepts of exploration, heroism, gender, storytelling, and memory. There are three distinct physical components in the archive, each referencing an officers roles on a typical polar expedition: a scientists lab vials, distilling the essentials of exploration; a photographers glass book, juxtaposing my experiences with those of early polar explorers; and the ships log, written by the captain or navigator,