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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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, […]
Diary 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 […]
Diary 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 […]
Diary 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, […]
Diary 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 […]
Diary 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, […]
What 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 […]
December 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 […]
In 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, […]
October 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 […]
Greetings 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, […]
The End is Nigh! In 12 days the first planes will arrive, invading us with who knows what? Well we have a pretty good idea. We are looking forward to […]