King Edward Point Diary – September 2011
A busy month at KEP for fishing and a lot of snow fell making for some great skinning at lunch times and skiing at the weekends. I started the month […]
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King Edward Point Diary – August 2011
Read more of: King Edward Point Diary – August 2011Greetings to all you dedicated avid KEP web diary readers. I’m sure you have had some healthy verbal meals served up to you by previous entries and have been digesting […]
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North Sea 2011
Read more of: North Sea 2011The Shackleton has been through quite a lot since you last heard from us down south. We departed Stanley in April and headed North for warmer climes. We had an […]
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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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King Edward Point – July 2011
Read more of: King Edward Point – July 2011The month kicked off with cold weather and a continuation of our midwinter celebrations — interrupted at the time by shipping and work commitments which often occur outside of normal […]
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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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King Edward Point Diary – June 2011
Read more of: King Edward Point Diary – June 2011June at King Edward Point was a varied month. It featured the most important celebrations of the Antarctic calendar, events of astronomical significance, and was punctuated by holidays, fishing vessels […]
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JCR Refit 2011
Read more of: JCR Refit 2011The James Clark Ross entered Portsmouth Naval Base on Wednesday 1st June to start the annual refit period. The James Clark Ross entered Portsmouth Naval Base on Wednesday 1st June […]
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King Edward Point Diary – May 2011
Read more of: King Edward Point Diary – May 2011A month of holidays, parties and a little bit of work! The two bank holidays of course coincided with some deep depressions bringing miserable weather however, Rob, Tommy and myself […]
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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 […]
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King Edward Point Diary – April 2011
Read more of: King Edward Point Diary – April 2011After a busy couple of months with the rat eradication project the start of April felt much quieter. The beginning of the month brought with it our first real drop […]