ANTON ARCTIC AND THECONQUEST OF THE SCOTTISH POLE
Ordinary geographers believe that our planet has only two poles, the North and South, and they prefer to ignore the East, West, Front and Back poles. But Anton Arctic went to the other extreme and maintained the existence of a seventh pole, namely the Scottish.
This is Anton’s story or should be, but in truth there isn’t much to tell. He had wanted to be an explorer since he fell asleep in a laundry basket and awoke hanging from a washing line. The huge white sheets drying next to him looked like icebergs and after he detached himself from the pegs holding him up he wandered among them in wonder. He was only thirty eight years old and was astonished to discover that icebergs are not cold. In fact he used them to wrap up warm when night fe
