Signy Island Diary — January 2010
We started off the year with a day off work and a wonderful four course meal prepared by Dirk Briggs. Despite starting with a day off work, January would turn […]
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King Edward Point Diary – January 2010
Read more of: King Edward Point Diary – January 2010The year two thousand and ten started, as many do, with a party. The New Year’s celebrations at King Edward Point commenced with a formal dinner followed by the inevitable […]
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Rothera Diary — January 2010
Read more of: Rothera Diary — January 2010Power Downs and Parties The year is 2010, the month is January my task to write about the trials and tribulations of base life down at Rother research station. Well […]
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Polar View links
Read more of: Polar View linksGeneral Polar View project site – www.polarview.org Polar View Antarctic node – www.polarview.aq Google Earth links Envisat ASAR WSM N1 files – last 24 hours Envisat ASAR WSM N1 files […]
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Signy Island Diary — December 2009
Read more of: Signy Island Diary — December 2009Hi, I am Antony Clements. I am the facilities technician here in Signy. Back home I live in a small village in North Dorset, where I work as a plumber. […]
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King Edward Point Diary – December 2009
Read more of: King Edward Point Diary – December 2009The month was started by the new members of the team going field training for 4 days, Ali Massey, Susan Woodward Tom Marshall and Matt Holmes to Sørling Valley. Tom […]
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Rothera Diary — December 2009
Read more of: Rothera Diary — December 2009Fresh Marmite November’s diary ended with Mike returning to base on the RSS James Clark Ross, having spent most of the previous month loitering in the Falkland Islands. As the […]
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Signy Island Diary — November 2009
Read more of: Signy Island Diary — November 2009Welcome back to Signy Island in the first diary entry of the 2009–10 season. The summer season on Signy began on the 6th November when Matt (Base Commander), Bruce (Field […]
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Rothera Diary — November 2009
Read more of: Rothera Diary — November 2009A Glimpse of Life on the Outside At the time of volunteering to write this month’s entry for the Rothera Diary, I had no reason to suspect that I might […]
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King Edward Point Diary – November 2009
Read more of: King Edward Point Diary – November 2009Outside my office window an elephant seal weaner (weaned pup) has propelled itself caterpillar fashion (it’s termed “humping”) across the fresh snowfall and unsuccessfully attempted to gnaw through the base […]
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King Edward Point Diary – October 2009
Read more of: King Edward Point Diary – October 2009October on South Georgia is the most amazing month. From having seen the first elephant seals arrive in September and the first pups born around the vernal equinox, the massive […]
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Rothera Diary — October 2009
Read more of: Rothera Diary — October 2009End of winter, planes, new faces and freshies All good things come to an end, also the winter of 2009. This happened on the 10th day of this month. One […]