Alessandro Antonello is associate professor of environmental history at the University of Tasmania. He is the author of The Greening of Antarctica: Assembling an International Environment (Oxford University Press, 2019) and other works on the international history of Antarctica.
Books & arts
Empire of the southern seas
Alessandro Antonello
27 May 2025
Australia is better seen as a vast archipelago, according to a new exploration of its iciest reaches
Essays & reportage
The flickering cryosphere
Alessandro Antonello
6 December 2024
A centennial re-watching of the cinema of ice
Essays & reportage
Memorialising Captain Cook in lonely places
Alessandro Antonello
3 September 2020
An exchange of memorials illustrates how Cook has been remembered and misremembered
Essays & reportage
Another ferocious summer
Alessandro Antonello
4 March 2020
As the season’s last scientific resupply journeys are made to Antarctica, a visitor observes the deepening impact of climate change
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