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Untitled blog post from "Big Antarctic project"
It somehow seems appropriate to come full circle and make a last post sitting back at home at my kitchen table. The journey back was pretty gruelling, made worse by being unused to hoards of people and shops at airports […]
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Untitled blog post from "Big Antarctic project"
This is sadly going to be my last entry from Antarctica. I got back from Sky Blue to a barrage of emails and deadlines and reality gripped rather vice like. I've built my furnace and have had lots of successful […]
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Untitled blog post from "Big Antarctic project"
If I hadn't been lucky enough to visit Sky Blue, I wouldn't have experienced what conditions in the Antarctic are truly like. Here at Rothera, life is very comfortable in our centrally heated buildings, hot water, and meals cooked for […]
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I'm not sure how to start this entry. I got back last night after nearly 3 weeks working at Sky Blue, an isolated BAS refuelling location 500miles south of Rothera, 75 degrees south on the Antarctic mainland. The stripped back […]
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I'm posting this a bit early because I'm off to live in a melon hut at the Sky-blue station for a week……..I'll explain it all when I get back…….. Ok, in answer to everyone's question 'have you made any work […]
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When I was preparing to come here, I had in mind the whole time Antarctica as a place. My project was based around the environment – ice and light movement, and their transience and dynamic nature in relation to glass […]
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Rothera has been a busy place over the last few days, people constantly arriving and departing, new arrivals and 'winterers' (those that make up the 20 or so individuals that stay over the winter without visitors or food drops from […]
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We're just approaching Rothera this morning after 10 days at sea.Yesterday was one of these days that will stay with me forever…..I'm just posting some pics for now until we get off the ship and the internet connection is better. […]
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This is now the 4th day of being at sea on board the James Clark Ross. We're out in the middle of Drakes Passage, a notoriously dangerous part of the sea where the Pacific joins the Atlantic in a 600-mile […]
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I arrived in the Falkland Islands on Saturday afternoon, thoroughly exhausted after 2 days of long haul travelling. The journey so far though has already been amazing, the people from BAS that are travelling with me are great fun and […]
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First posting! Only 4 days left before I leave for the Big Chill….. It's going to take me 11 days to get from Heathrow to Rothera research station on the Antarctic penisula. I'm flying to Chile, then a couple of […]