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John Cooper, ALSA’s Principal Investigator attended a Multidisciplinary Conference on the Historical Antarctic Sealing Industry at the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, UK on 19 & 20 September 2016.  He presented a paper on the wrecking of the Solglimt and rescue of its crew at Marion Island in 1908, with co-authors Jaco Boshoff, Social History […]

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John Cooper, ALSA’s Principal Investigator will attend a multidisciplinary conference on the historical Antarctic sealing industry at the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge on 18 & 20 September 2016.  He will present a paper on the wrecking of the Solglimt and rescue of its crew at Marion Island in 1908, with co-authors Jaco Boshoff, Social […]

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The ALSA team outside the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies next to a bust of Roald Amundsen, first man at the South Pole Over 5-7 July the Antarctic Legacy of South Africa’s John Cooper, Anché Louw and Ria Olivier attended the “Depths and Surfaces: Understanding the Antarctic Region through the Humanities and Social Sciences Conference” in […]