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King Edward Point Diary – February 2015
10 February, 2015 BAS Bloggers
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 …
King Edward Point Diary – December 2014
31 December, 2014 BAS Bloggers
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 …
Signy Diary – November 2014
30 November, 2014 Iain Rudkin
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, …
Rothera Diary – November 2014
20 November, 2014 Christopher Evans
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 …
King Edward Point Diary – October 2014
31 October, 2014 BAS Bloggers
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, …
Rothera Diary – October 2014
9 October, 2014 Belinda Vause
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 …
Rothera Diary – August 2014
24 August, 2014 Petra Mildeova
August has been another busy month on and off the base, with the second round of winter trips starting at the beginning of the month. Mine and Andy’s winter trip …
King Edward Point Diary – July 2014
23 July, 2014 Matthew Phillips
With seven BAS and one Government officer on the island life has been quiet at KEP. Everyone has stayed on base, mainly because we don’t have the numbers to let …
King Edward Point Diary – June 2014
20 June, 2014 BAS Bloggers
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 …
King Edward Point Diary – May 2014
27 May, 2014 BAS Bloggers
Hello 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 …
Halley Diary – May 2014
18 May, 2014 John Mann
May was another busy month at Halley with the loss of the sun and the temperature dropping even further making our everyday tasks down here that little bit more challenging. …
Rothera Diary – May 2014
17 May, 2014 Malcolm Airey
May 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 …
Halley Diary – April 2014
18 April, 2014 BAS Bloggers
With the first round of Winter Training Trips concluded April saw the wintering team here at Halley VI settling in for the long, cold winter to come. You could say …
Rothera Diary – April 2014
17 April, 2014 Mairi Fenton
The 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 …
King Edward Point Diary – March 2014
20 March, 2014 Matthew Phillips
Well 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 …
Halley Diary – March 2014
18 March, 2014 Richard Warren
March has been a busy month for all of us at Halley station. Following the departure of the RRS Ernest Shackleton in February, March saw the continuation of winter trips, …
Halley Diary – February 2014
24 February, 2014 Michal Krzysztofowicz
February was a really busy month at Halley. The month has started with the arrival of Summer Science Staff on the RRS Ernest Shackleton – this was the second Shack’s …
King Edward Point Diary – February 2014
18 February, 2014 Matthew Phillips
Following 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 …
Halley Diary – January 2014
24 January, 2014 BAS Bloggers
It was a strange way to welcome in the New Year, standing outside the modules at Halley, at midnight with a clear sky above us and the sun glaring down, …
King Edward Point Diary – January 2014
18 January, 2014 BAS Bloggers
Hello! 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 …
King Edward Point Diary – December 2013
18 December, 2013 BAS Bloggers
December, 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 …
Halley Diary – December 2013
17 December, 2013 BAS Bloggers
1800 drums of fuel, 650kgs of potatoes, 3 cubic meters of toilet paper and a drum kit. This is just a small selection of items that have arrived this year …
Halley Diary — November 2013
30 November, 2013 BAS Bloggers
Having spent a winter in isolation on the Brunt ice shelf we were all very excited as the first plane landed on the runway bringing people and freshies. More than …
King Edward Point Diary – November 2013
25 November, 2013 James McKenna
On 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 …
Halley Diary — October 2013
31 October, 2013 BAS Bloggers
It’s October now and the length of daylight is increasing rapidly at this time of year. It only seems a few weeks since we were in total darkness yet we …
Halley Diary — September 2013
30 September, 2013 BAS Bloggers
With the ever-increasing light and (occasionally) improving weather, September felt like we were truly beginning to leave winter behind. Although the true start of the summer season is not until …
King Edward Point Diary – September 2013
30 September, 2013 Susan Gregory
For 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 …
Halley Diary — August 2013
31 August, 2013 Agnieszka Fryckowska
Winter has been with us for a while but during the beginning of August we get the first glimpses of the sun raising itself. Skies are spectacular during the day …
Halley Diary — July 2013
31 July, 2013 BAS Bloggers
With the build- up and celebration of mid-winter over, July started with the winter teams six-monthly dental checks. Having had our teeth checked and treated before leaving for the Antarctic …
Rothera Diary – July 2013
1 July, 2013 BAS Bloggers
Midwinter Roundup The days got shorter and shorter, the sun stopped appearing over the mountainous horizon and the snow continued to fall; winter was well and truly here at Rothera …
Halley Diary — June 2013
30 June, 2013 BAS Bloggers
Doctor’s Report Summary: Sun above the horizon – 0 days, 0 hours, 0 minutes, 0 seconds Max Wind Speed – 81 knots Min Temp – −48°C (-62°C Midwinter’s Week Fun …
Halley Diary — May 2013
31 May, 2013 Agnieszka Fryckowska
So it’s May, the flag has gone down, days are dark, it’s cold and yes winter is well and truly here at Halley. What on earth do we do on …
King Edward Point Diary – May 2013
31 May, 2013 BAS Bloggers
May is the greatest month of the year. ‘Quite a grand statement’ you might say,’ what about December?’. Forget December, its rubbish. May is the best for two reasons 1)It …
Halley Diary — April 2013
30 April, 2013 BAS Bloggers
The month of April really brings home the prospect of the upcoming 100 days in which we will not see the sun at all. The nights draw in ever more …
King Edward Point Diary – April 2013
30 April, 2013 BAS Bloggers
April Web Diary (better late than never!) It’s difficult to know what to write in a base diary – do people want to hear about what I’ve been up to …
Halley Diary — March 2013
31 March, 2013 BAS Bloggers
It’s now March, the days are starting to draw in and winter is coming to Antarctica. It’s that time of year when anyone not staying for the approaching winter (or …
King Edward Point Diary – March 2013
31 March, 2013 BAS Bloggers
As I’m sitting here in the middle of May staring blankly at a word count of two in this document, I am wondering where the weeks and months are slipping …
Halley Diary — February 2013
28 February, 2013 BAS Bloggers
February, the shortest month of the year and probably the most jam-packed one, here at Halley VI. 28 busy days with almost every day filled with an event, the station …
King Edward Point Diary – February 2013
28 February, 2013 BAS Bloggers
After such a web diary as that written by Sue last month how do I keep up the momentum she has started? February, for all that it is a rather …
Rothera Diary — February 2013
1 February, 2013 BAS Bloggers
So, we’ve been back at Rothera for a couple of weeks now after spending the previous two and a half months “deep field” working on a scientific project in the …
Halley Diary — January 2013
31 January, 2013 BAS Bloggers
January… the busiest month of the year. As our regular supply ship, the Ernest Shackleton had now dropped off the last of the long-term arrivals there were a number of …
King Edward Point Diary – January 2013
31 January, 2013 Susan Gregory
After a brief hiatus in KEP web diaries, I apologise in advance for this being fairly epic entry, it’s been a busy month or so! Firstly, a hello from the …
Rothera Diary — January 2013
28 January, 2013 BAS Bloggers
After a long, but good journey, from The Netherlands our group arrived January 10th safe and sound at Rothera. The first sight was of stranded icebergs in North Cove blindingly …
Signy Island Diary — December 2012
31 December, 2012 Stacey Adlard
After a scenic journey south from the Falklands, via Bird Island and King Edward Point, the JCR arrived at Signy on 24th November. Of those onboard, eight were bound for …
Halley Diary — November 2012
30 November, 2012 BAS Bloggers
1st November: As the Winter draws to a close and the last field trip returns the base begins preparation for the arrival of new people. The super warm clothing, specialised …
Halley Diary — October 2012
31 October, 2012 BAS Bloggers
Life at Windy Bay caboose during the last month of winter A Caboose is a small living container, sitting on sledge at Windy Bay. It was home for me during …
King Edward Point Diary – September 2012
30 September, 2012 William Whatley
September has been my first month on base and it has been incredible. I am here visiting Jo Cox (Government Officer) and I have been making the most of this …
Halley Diary — August 2012
31 August, 2012 BAS Bloggers
The weekend of the 4th and 5th of August was spent making a short film for the Antarctic Film Festival. Despite being titled ‘What a Drag’, it was really fun …
King Edward Point Diary – August 2012
31 August, 2012 BAS Bloggers
Well where do I try to begin to share one of the most pleasurable months I’ve had on this Island with you, in this, the August Diary… I think I …
Rothera Diary — August 2012
20 August, 2012 Dale Sewell
…Sledge echo sledge echo, this is Rothera do you copy… August kicked off with a week of night watch duties, well welcomed after a hectic month on the jazz drumming …
Halley Diary — July 2012
31 July, 2012 BAS Bloggers
July was one of the harder months of the Winter. The excitement of mid-Winter had passed and sun-up in August seemed like a long way off. It was also the …
King Edward Point Diary – July 2012
31 July, 2012 BAS Bloggers
July started with quite a lot of snow on the ground, the track often being closed due to avalanche risk. Winter training was undertaken by all base members, this included …
Rothera Diary — July 2012
20 July, 2012 BAS Bloggers
July at Rothera. The excitement of the midwinter’s week festivities is slowly dying down and the base is returning to its usual routines. All the midwinter presents, that many people …
Halley Diary — June 2012
30 June, 2012 BAS Bloggers
The darkest month of the year and important mid-winter celebration for all the people in Antarctica is what June is all about here in the South. The sun is below …
King Edward Point Diary – June 2012
30 June, 2012 BAS Bloggers
The first thing that always springs to mind when it comes to writing the June diary is of course – Mid Winters day and all the celebrations that accompanies the …
Halley Diary — May 2012
31 May, 2012 BAS Bloggers
The month of May started with the lowering of the very weather damaged British flag. This will be the only flag to have been flown above Halley 5 and Halley …
King Edward Point Diary – May 2012
31 May, 2012 BAS Bloggers
Compared to recent months, May was a relatively quiet month and saw us eventually whittled down to our wintering team. The month kicked off with an oil spill response exercise, …
Rothera Diary — May 2012
30 May, 2012 Adam Bradley
With the Ernest Shackleton long departed and the daylight disappearing rapidly, the 18-strong team remaining at Rothera really started to experience the proper Antarctic winter. On the 18th of May …
Halley Diary — April 2012
30 April, 2012 BAS Bloggers
What makes life in Antarctica different to life somewhere else? What drives someone down to the end of the world? What makes it worthwhile or interesting? What about April 2012? …
King Edward Point Diary – April 2012
30 April, 2012 James Wake
April at KEP is usually the point that summer starts to wind down and winter begins; numbers on station drop and the makeup of shipping changes from Tourism to Fishing. …
Rothera Diary — April 2012
20 April, 2012 BAS Bloggers
In one hour it will be time to switch on the high frequency radio and report back to base, let them know we’re safe & well, our location, our intentions …
King Edward Point Diary – March 2012
31 March, 2012 BAS Bloggers
Most significantly this month, we have been joined by two new team members. Paula O’Sullivan and Jo Cox are both familiar faces to BAS; Paula having worked as a boating …
Rothera Diary — March 2012
28 March, 2012 BAS Bloggers
Early March saw the departure of the last BAS planes for the season. This left 42 people on station to carry on the science, various works and to commence winterising …
Halley Diary — February 2012
28 February, 2012 BAS Bloggers
February at Halley this year, despite being the shortest month, seemed much longer. Everything was about timing. Do we have enough time to make the station ready for wintering? Do …
King Edward Point Diary – February 2012
28 February, 2012 BAS Bloggers
February has been a busy month on base, lots of people coming and going. The weather has been very changeable too, a scattering of beautiful sunny days, but also cold …
Halley Diary — January 2012
31 January, 2012 BAS Bloggers
January often starts with a hangover and usually marks the end of the busy festive season. At Halley, folk were half-way through relief, back-loading waste onto the Ernest Shackleton and …
King Edward Point Diary – January 2012
31 January, 2012 BAS Bloggers
With 2011 on South Georgia being cast into the history books, 2012 started in earnest and once again the King Edward Point gang enjoyed a busy, varied and challenging start …
Signy Island Diary — January 2012
31 January, 2012 Stacey Adlard
The phrase “Science never sleeps” seems to have been very appropriate on Signy this year. We have 3 scientists on base and this season has seen them up at all …
Halley Diary — December 2011
31 December, 2011 BAS Bloggers
I arrived at Halley on the 2nd of Dec after spending the previous week travelling through Cape Town and Novo with ALCI. The journey was particularly smooth and even got …
King Edward Point Diary – December 2011
31 December, 2011 James Wake
December is a busy time of year down here on South Georgia, being the height of summer. One of the tasks this month was a project to improve the mapping …
Rothera Diary — December 2011
31 December, 2011 BAS Bloggers
Cargo and Christmas were the main features of December at Rothera. The arrival of the BAS ship RRS James Clark Ross turned the base into an even busier place than …
Halley Diary — November 2011
30 November, 2011 BAS Bloggers
It was to be another very busy start to what would be another very season. The first of many flights and transits were due out on the 23rd Oct 2011, …
King Edward Point Diary – November 2011
30 November, 2011 BAS Bloggers
‘Remember, remember the fifth of November’ It was indeed one of the more memorable Guy Fawkes’ nights of my life: I had only arrived a few days previous with fellow …
Signy Island Diary — November 2011
30 November, 2011 Kathryn Norwood
The 2011–12 Signy Island research season began in the early hours of the 16th November, as the Royal Research ship James Clark Ross, having left the Falklands several weeks earlier, …
Halley Diary — October 2011
31 October, 2011 BAS Bloggers
Well it’s finally my turn to write a month. My name is Paul Barwick and I am the wintering Electrical Service Technician here at Halley and if all goes to …
King Edward Point Diary – October 2011
31 October, 2011 BAS Bloggers
The beginning of October saw a hefty amount of snow still with us here on the fair isle of South Georgia. It was in these snowy conditions that visitors arrived …
Halley Diary — September 2011
30 September, 2011 BAS Bloggers
We are fortunate enough at Halley to have an Emperor Penguin colony at “Windy Bay”, about 20Km from base. Naturally everyone is keen to see them. So I thought I …
King Edward Point Diary – September 2011
30 September, 2011 BAS Bloggers
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 …
Halley Diary — August 2011
31 August, 2011 Brett Walton
By far the most important event that occurred in August was the appearance of the sun above the horizon for the first time in over three months signalling the beginning …
King Edward Point Diary – August 2011
31 August, 2011 BAS Bloggers
Greetings 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 …
Halley Diary — July 2011
31 July, 2011 BAS Bloggers
So what went on in July? To be honest with you I’m now writing the diary and its the end of August so I’m having to trawl the memory banks …
Rothera Diary — July 2011
31 July, 2011 BAS Bloggers
Cold 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 …
King Edward Point – July 2011
22 July, 2011 BAS Bloggers
The 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 …
Halley Diary — June 2011
30 June, 2011 BAS Bloggers
The following events took place between 1st June and the 30th of June Welcome to the June diary, June has been a busy month for all of us on station, …
King Edward Point Diary – June 2011
30 June, 2011 BAS Bloggers
June 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 …
Rothera Diary — June 2011
30 June, 2011 BAS Bloggers
Some 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 …
Halley Diary — May 2011
31 May, 2011 BAS Bloggers
The sun sets for the last time May already… wow. One thing I’ve noticed since arriving down at Halley is just how quickly the time has flown by. It doesn’t …
King Edward Point Diary – May 2011
31 May, 2011 BAS Bloggers
A 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 …
Rothera Diary — May 2011
30 May, 2011 BAS Bloggers
It’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 …
King Edward Point Diary – April 2011
30 April, 2011 BAS Bloggers
After 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 …
Rothera Diary — April 2011
30 April, 2011 Mike Brian
With 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 …
Halley Diary — March 2011
31 March, 2011 Christopher Walton
Well it was almost a year to the day that I was on the Ernest Shackleton and waved goodbye to the winter team of 2010 as they stood on the …
King Edward Point Diary – March 2011
31 March, 2011 BAS Bloggers
Had it not been for the fact that there was a great deal of activity on base throughout the month of March, it would have been apparent to the “first …
Rothera Diary — March 2011
30 March, 2011 Malcolm Airey
Good morning, outside world! As I sit here typing this, the first few snowflakes of winter are starting to fall outside the window, and Rothera is well and truly taking …
Halley Diary — February 2011
28 February, 2011 BAS Bloggers
February started with a bang. As part of BAS winter training we have an annual major incident scenario to make sure we are all ready and well rehearsed just in …
King Edward Point Diary – February 2011
28 February, 2011 BAS Bloggers
With some incredibly warm and sunny weather everyone on base has been making the most of the magnificent scenery, taking photos and getting out walking in the mountains whenever the …
Halley Diary — January 2011
31 January, 2011 BAS Bloggers
Happy New Year from Halley base Antarctica! As 2011 was rung in, I was ‘fresh off the boat’ (RRS Ernest Shackleton) having sailed from the UK eight weeks previously. In …
King Edward Point Diary – January 2011
31 January, 2011 BAS Bloggers
January 2011 and another year beings at King Edward Point, South Georgia… The New Year was welcomed in with a fantastic three course meal, drinks and party atmosphere a’flowing, and …