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About

British Antarctic Survey (BAS) delivers and enables world-leading interdisciplinary research in the Polar Regions. Its skilled science and support staff based in Cambridge, Antarctica and the Arctic, work together to deliver research that uses the Polar Regions to advance our understanding of Earth and our impact on it.

BAS is a component of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). NERC is part of UK Research and Innovation

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About British Antarctic Survey

Learn about our organisation, our funding, our aims, our people, science, history, events, contacts and public information services

Emperor Penguins on the sea ice in the Weddell Sea

Antarctica

Find out about the Antarctic Treaty, Britain in Antarctica, Environmental protection, Geography, Science, Tourism and Wildlife

Three polar bears on the edge of a small iceberg

The Arctic

Discover what Britain does in the Arctic; its Geography, Science, Tourism and Wildlife