The Norwegian sealer S.S. Solglimt was deliberately beached in a sinking condition on 16 October 1908 in Ship’s Cove, Marion Island after hitting the then uncharted Solglimt Blinder a little way offshore. The whole ship’s complement of around 75 men got ashore safely and erected huts to live in until they were rescued a month […]
The on-line SPRI Polar Directory hosted by the University of Cambridge’s Scott Polar Research Institute provides “brief details of libraries, museums and ganisations with interests relating to the polar and cold regions; that is, to the Arctic and Antarctic and to all parts of the world where ice, snow and permafrost are to be found.” […]
Earlier this week South Africa’s National Research Foundation (NRF) hosted a two-day strategic workshop to discuss a way forward with academic and other scientists who conduct research within the South African National Antarctic Programme (SANAP). The workshop was held at the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO), a NRF National Research Facility, in Observatory, a suburb […]
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