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Durban Museum staffers Mmatjie Mashao with a skin of an Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross Thalassarche carteri and David Allan holding a giant petrel Macronectes sp., next to the cabinet holding more specimens, fittingly photographed on Antarctica Day (coincidentally also World AIDS Day, hence their lapel ribbons) The on-line SPRI Polar Directory hosted by the University of […]

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Feature photograph: An inland view of Marion Island, taken by Anders Harboe-Ree in October/November 1908; the earliest-known landscape photograph taken at the Prince Edward Islands On 16 October 1908 the Norwegian sealing vessel Solglimt hit an uncharted rock off Marion Island’s north-eastern coast and was deliberately grounded in Ship’s Cove in a sinking condition by […]

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Feature photograph: ALSA’s archivist, Ria Olivier alongside a statue of polar explorer Roald Amundsen outside the Fram Museum on Bygdøy, Oslo The Polar Museums Network (PMN) has been created for all countries and individuals that house exhibitions of polar material.  The PMN is an initiative to strengthen and spread knowledge of polar history, science and exploration.  […]

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