King Edward Point Diary – June 2014
Salutations from South Georgia. June is a very special month in the Antarctic because it is midwinter on 21st June. The Winter Solstice is a time of celebration on base […]
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King Edward Point Diary – May 2014
Read more of: King Edward Point Diary – May 2014Hello and welcome to an exciting, edge of your seat, month of May diary. It was the first proper month of winter for all of us here at KEP with […]
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Rothera Diary – May 2014
Read more of: Rothera Diary – May 2014May has been a busy month at Rothera, with the weather starting to get a bit more wintery and Antarctic – less rain(!) and more snow and darkness. We are […]
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Rothera Diary – April 2014
Read more of: Rothera Diary – April 2014The RRS Ernest Shackleton left us on the 21st of March this year so April saw the first month of winter here at Rothera. We are getting used to a […]
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King Edward Point Diary – March 2014
Read more of: King Edward Point Diary – March 2014Well hello, Matthew (boaty) here again! It was deemed that my blog from last month was of a standard that could not be matched, by any of the mortals on […]
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King Edward Point Diary – February 2014
Read more of: King Edward Point Diary – February 2014Following on from Daniel’s nature-based post I’m going to try and mix it up… though given the wildlife on South Georgia that’s not as easy as it might sound. Being […]
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King Edward Point Diary – January 2014
Read more of: King Edward Point Diary – January 2014Hello! It’s me Daniel, the Zoological Field Assistant. Let me tell you something about King Edward Point, from a base member’s point of view, this month will be filled with […]
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King Edward Point Diary – December 2013
Read more of: King Edward Point Diary – December 2013December, for the northern hemisphere, is a time of long dark nights and cold weather bringing misery to the roads as soon as the first snowflake falls; not so for […]
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King Edward Point Diary – November 2013
Read more of: King Edward Point Diary – November 2013On a chilly November morning, a group of excited folk crowded around the bronze statue of a Siberian Husky outside BAS headquarters in Cambridge, preparing to set off on a […]
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King Edward Point Diary – September 2013
Read more of: King Edward Point Diary – September 2013For the residents of KEP, September is the calm before the storm… the last month with just the wintering team on base before the start of the new season. October […]
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JCR Arctic Final Update
Read more of: JCR Arctic Final UpdateThis is the final update from the James Clark Ross from the JR288 Arctic cruise. The science is now almost complete and the ship is on passage to Dundee, from […]
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JCR Arctic Update 29th July 2013
Read more of: JCR Arctic Update 29th July 2013Monday proved to be an interesting day for us all on the JCR. Just after mid-day a BAS Twin Otter aircraft did a fly past, having taken off from Longyearbyen […]