ANTARCTIC BLOG: Life on Bird Island
Located at the Western end of South Georgia, Bird Island sits directly in the path of approaching weather, and is often enveloped in cloud and mist. My 3 year old […]
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ANTARCTIC BLOG: Wild Life!
Read more of: ANTARCTIC BLOG: Wild Life!Birds Lucy has been busy at the colonies checking black brow albatross and grey headed albatross nests for failures and fledglings. The black browed albatross chicks have all gone now, […]
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ARCTIC BLOG: Setting foot back on land
Read more of: ARCTIC BLOG: Setting foot back on landDiary entry: Friday 27 March 2015 Time: 2200 hrs UTC Position: 78° 13′ N / 15° 33′ E Air Temperature: +1.5 °C Wind Speed: 8 knots We made it! After 38 days onboard the […]
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ARCTIC BLOG: Total solar eclipse
Read more of: ARCTIC BLOG: Total solar eclipseDiary entry: Friday 20 March 2015 Time: 1200 hrs UTC Position: 81° 44.23′ N / 19° 36.9′ E Air Temperature: −27.4 °C Wind Speed: 14 knots Nature is displaying a magnificent and […]
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ARCTIC BLOG: Enduring an Arctic storm
Read more of: ARCTIC BLOG: Enduring an Arctic stormDiary entry: Wednesday 18 March 2015 Time: 2237 hrs UTC Position: 82° 34.7′ N / 22° 43.6′ E Air Temperature: −32.6 °C Wind Speed: 12 knots The storm lasted not even 48 hours, […]
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ARCTIC BLOG: Climbing to the Crow’s Nest
Read more of: ARCTIC BLOG: Climbing to the Crow’s NestDiary entry: Friday 13 March 2015 Time: 1400 hrs UTC Position: 82° 52.1′ N / 21° 15.1′ E Air Temperature: −25.6 °C Wind Speed: 4.9 knots Since more than two and a half […]
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ARCTIC BLOG: Shimmering lights in the polar night
Read more of: ARCTIC BLOG: Shimmering lights in the polar nightDiary entry: Sunday 22 February 2015 Time: 2220 hrs UTC Position: 82° 35′ N / 29° 24′ E Air Temperature: −26.1 °C Wind Speed: 19.3 knots The Norwegian research vessel, […]
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King Edward Point Diary – February 2015
Read more of: King Edward Point Diary – February 2015What a busy month! The rat eradication team had arrived at the end of January aboard RSS Ernest Shackleton so, by February they had settled in and the final phase […]
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King Edward Point Diary – December 2014
Read more of: King Edward Point Diary – December 2014December in King Edward Point began with the arrival of the Royal Research Ship James Clark Ross (JCR). She brought down all the supplies and the doctor (me) for the […]
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Signy Diary – November 2014
Read more of: Signy Diary – November 2014In the small hours of the 15th November the James Clark Ross slipped her moorings at the fuel bunkers of Punta Arenas and headed out into the Straits of Magellan, […]
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Rothera Diary – November 2014
Read more of: Rothera Diary – November 2014October saw the arrival of the first Dash 7 of the season containing the first of the summer staff, and quite a few other planes from different Antarctic programs. It […]
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King Edward Point Diary – October 2014
Read more of: King Edward Point Diary – October 2014Greetings from the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia where spring has finally sprung. September finished with the visit of two warships and then on the 1st October our fisheries biologist, […]