Niven Library Manager, Susan Mvungi, holds a copy of the journal Antarctic Science in the Niven Library, below a painting of Sir Percy FitzPatrick, flanked by his daughter Cecily Niven (after whom the library is named) and her son Patrick Niven Continuing with featuring South African institutions with polar connections, the Antarctic Legacy of South […]
Quinton Bullard’s water colour of Australia’s Heard Island, with the sealer Kildalkey off Atlas Cove The Antarctic Legacy of South Africa has started its own publication series of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic books. The first in the series, Brian Huntley’s diary of his Marion Island sojourn as botanist on the First Biological & Geological Expedition in […]
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From left: Ellen Tise, Marié Theron and Ria Olivier in the JS Gericke Library with part of Bianca Lawrence’s donation starting the ALSA Antarctic Collection The Antarctic Legacy of South Africa has received several requests from previous SANAP team members and others involved with or interested in the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic regions about the preservation […]
