Lesser-Known Explorers of the Arctic

from Bob's Drive-In by Bob Drake

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Back in those days it was quite a big craze
to sail off to the arctic
heroic journeys of exploration
much to the amusement of Inuit and polar bear.

Some of them never did return
ending in mutiny, scurvy or worse
while others - the lesser-known,
are not often talked about today.
So we're going to tell you about some of them.

The explorers of the arctic at the turn of the century
who don't even bear a mention in the books of history
due to unsubstantiated claims of preposterous things
beheld on doubtful voyages of which there's no record.

I have heard a thing or two about these alleged voyages
and the things they claim to have encountered:

like the town of living statues made of electrical jade
the polarbears who dyed their fur in rainbow colours
while up in the sky things were flying
which might have been machines
the boiling sea was steaming with atomic wolverines.
Oh yes - they were atomic wolverines. Nobody knew that
at the time, of course, but they knew they were hot.

Were these all fantasies of scurvy-addled minds?
Nobody believed half that stuff anyway
even when provided with samples and sketches
and photos and logbooks and even living specimens

Nobody said it was going to be an easy job
being one of the lesser-known explorers of the arctic
at the turn of the century, the ones who have
not been deemed worthy of mention in the books.

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from Bob's Drive-In, released October 8, 2011

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