Rothera Diary — February 2013
So, we’ve been back at Rothera for a couple of weeks now after spending the previous two and a half months “deep field” working on a scientific project in the […]
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Rothera Diary — January 2013
Read more of: Rothera Diary — January 2013After a long, but good journey, from The Netherlands our group arrived January 10th safe and sound at Rothera. The first sight was of stranded icebergs in North Cove blindingly […]
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Rothera Diary — August 2012
Read more of: Rothera Diary — August 2012…Sledge echo sledge echo, this is Rothera do you copy… August kicked off with a week of night watch duties, well welcomed after a hectic month on the jazz drumming […]
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Rothera Diary — July 2012
Read more of: Rothera Diary — July 2012July at Rothera. The excitement of the midwinter’s week festivities is slowly dying down and the base is returning to its usual routines. All the midwinter presents, that many people […]
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Rothera Diary — May 2012
Read more of: Rothera Diary — May 2012With the Ernest Shackleton long departed and the daylight disappearing rapidly, the 18-strong team remaining at Rothera really started to experience the proper Antarctic winter. On the 18th of May […]
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Rothera Diary — April 2012
Read more of: Rothera Diary — April 2012In one hour it will be time to switch on the high frequency radio and report back to base, let them know we’re safe & well, our location, our intentions […]
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Rothera Diary — March 2012
Read more of: Rothera Diary — March 2012Early March saw the departure of the last BAS planes for the season. This left 42 people on station to carry on the science, various works and to commence winterising […]
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Rothera Diary — December 2011
Read more of: Rothera Diary — December 2011Cargo and Christmas were the main features of December at Rothera. The arrival of the BAS ship RRS James Clark Ross turned the base into an even busier place than […]
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Rothera Diary — July 2011
Read more of: Rothera Diary — July 2011Cold and Icy I am sitting in my office in The Bonner Laboratory looking out over the frozen sea towards the snowy mountains and remembering why it was such an […]
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Rothera Diary — June 2011
Read more of: Rothera Diary — June 2011Some Things Never Change Spending June in the Antarctic gives you time to think a little. Darkness, blizzards and the all important task of polishing my midwinter’s present often left […]
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Rothera Diary — May 2011
Read more of: Rothera Diary — May 2011It’s been two months since the RRS Ernest Shackleton left us, and left 20 of us alone at Rothera Research Station to look after the facility and maintain the science […]
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Rothera Diary — April 2011
Read more of: Rothera Diary — April 2011With memories of those who left us in March becoming more distant by the day, April was a month of “getting into the swing” of the Winter regime proper. While […]