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The geology of the Lemay group, Alexander Island
Publication 1 January, 1984
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Polar scientists and staff awarded place names in Antarctica
News 3 December, 2020
…and 3 km deep between Palosuo Islands and the west side of Renaud Island, Biscoe Islands. Named for Professor Seymour Laxon (1963-2013), Director, Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling at…
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History of Fossil Bluff (Station KG)
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Location Position: Lat. 71° 20′ S, Long. 68° 17′ W General location: Fossil Bluff, Alexander Island Purpose Survey, geology, glaciology and field geophysics. Advanced station for field parties from Stonington…
History of Prospect Point (Station J)
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Introduction The letter J was originally intended for a station on Alexander Island in the 1948/49 season which was never established. The base established at Prospect Point was originally known…
British Antarctic Survey wins environment award
News 7 November, 2003
…removal came into place with the Antarctic Treaty Environmental Protocol. The clean up took place near the remote BAS summer field station at Fossil Bluff, Alexander Island on the Antarctic…
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Removal of the sledge dogs
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…a working team in support of a surveying project on Alexander Island. When the dogs finally departed Rothera, special husky kennels were built and fitted inside the BAS Dash 7…
Fossils from the Antarctic
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…preserved in abundance within sandstones and mudstones of the Antarctic Peninsula, most notably the Cretaceous (145–65 million years ago) rocks from Alexander Island and the South Shetland Islands. The diverse…
Bird Island Diary – December 2004
Blogpost 31 December, 2004
…his momentous trek across the island. You could also just make out Annenkov Island, sitting off the south west of the island. A pleasant scramble along 100m of exposed ridge…
Rothera Air Facility
Operational infrastructure
…from the Falkland Islands and Chile, other countries embark from New Zealand (including the United States), Chile and Argentina. BAS also uses the Falkland Islands as a port for its…
Jan – Changing plans
Blogpost 31 January, 2006
…sits on the Eastern edge of Alexander Island with mountains to the west and King George Sound to the East. The view across the sound is pretty good to say…
New signs of life found at the Poles
News 22 September, 2004
…Poles are covered in vegetation – over 90% of the rocks studied were colonized. Rocks were sampled from Cornwallis Island and Devon Island in the Canadian High Arctic and Mars…
The British Antarctic Survey Husky Sledge Dog Monument unveiled
News 7 July, 2009
…research — travelled across Alexander Island. Two men from BAS and 14 huskies sledged in an area the size of Denmark that lies to the west of the Antarctic Peninsula….
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Bird Island Diary – December 2005
Blogpost 31 December, 2005
What a month! December, usually a month of joyous celebration has lived up to this reputation admirably on Bird Island. The RRS James Clark Ross now long gone, it was…
Dec – A busy month!
Blogpost 31 December, 2004
…Quebec at Berkner ice core drilling, and Sledge Juliet on the Rutford ice stream hot water drilling. Also Craig Storey and Rob Jarvis got out to Alexander Island to collect…
Rothera Diary — November 2010
Blogpost 30 November, 2010
…the next few days. Sledge November (Mike Brian and Hamish Pritchard) was flown to Lataday Island for ground penetrating radar work. Later they would be uplifted and moved to Alexander…
Twin-Otter Aircraft damaged
News 10 November, 2003
…a routine re-supply flight to Fossil Bluff, a remote field station situated on Alexander Island on the Antarctic Peninsula. Strong, gusting winds lifted the tail of the De Havilland Twin…
BAS signs licensing deal for extreme equipment
News 21 February, 2008
…– a BAS study site on Alexander Island off the Antarctic Peninsula. The seasonal melting of snow at the site provides an important habitat for Antarctic organisms, so by continuously…
Rothera Diary — April 2011
Blogpost 30 April, 2011
…these items were put to very hard work last summer; the wind blasted skidoo tarpaulin that came back from Alexander Island looking like it was attacked by a shark, for…
NEWS STORY: More moss growing in Antarctica
News 29 August, 2013
…Bay on Alexander Island, in 2008. The researchers extracted a short peat core from the bank and, using radiocarbon dating techniques, ascertained the start of peat accumulation to have been…
Fossil Bluff Field Station
Station
…the foot of a scree-covered ridge overlooking George VI Sound, which separates mountainous Alexander Island from Palmer Land. George VI Ice Shelf occupies the sound and provides a north-south route…
Rothera Diary — February 2010
Blogpost 28 February, 2010
…with pilot Doug Pearson out across Marguerite bay, due south to Fossil Bluff, which lies on the East Coast of Alexander Island at 71° south. Fossil Bluff was originally a…
Predicting non-native ‘invasions’ in Antarctica
News 13 January, 2020
…life by smothering the native marine animals that live on the seabed.” Some of the sub-Antarctic islands such as Marion Island and South Georgia have already been invaded by rats,…
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Mapping Antarctica
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…The retreat of glaciers meant that the risk of invasive rats spreading on the island was increased and the team then supported a project that eradicated rats from the island….
End of giant iceberg A-68
News 19 April, 2021
…RRS James Cook. Photo credit_NOC Dr Alexander Brearley, an oceanographer at BAS, who is co-leading piloting of the gliders, says: “The experiment has provided us with a unique opportunity to…
King Edward Point Diary – March 2006
Blogpost 31 March, 2006
…Simon Morley and his new wife Steph – on the Alexander Von Humboldt (aka Explorer II) – they had a quick drink with us in the bar before departing. Sigma…
Scientists explain how meltwater reaches ocean depths
News 30 January, 2017
…meltwater as it flowed out of a cave beneath the Pine Island Glacier – one of the fastest melting glaciers in Antarctica. They used a VMP23 (Vertical Microstructure Profiler) to…
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Ice core aquisition and analysis
Lab
State-of-the-art capability BAS provides the UK’s only capability to recover and analyse ice cores (up to 1000 m). We provide ice core drills for deployment by research teams around the…
Metamorphic rocks in the Antarctic Peninsula region
Publication 1 January, 2008
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Meteorology and Ozone Monitoring
Project
Long-term meteorological and ozone observations and data help determine the causes of climate change in the polar regions. Meteorology Meteorological observations are made regularly throughout the day at Halley and…
