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On 20 December this year 55 researchers from 30 nations, 10 of them South Africans, will set off on an international scientific expedition from Cape Town to circumnavigate Antarctica for three months aboard the modern 12 000-tonne Russian polar research vessel Akademik Treshnikov, launched in 2011.  The Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE), set to last until […]

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EventsMarion Island

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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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The Third Joint Conference of the Humanities and Social Sciences Expert Group and the History Expert Group of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) with the theme “Depths and Surfaces: Understanding the Antarctic Region through the Humanities and Social Sciences” will be held at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of […]

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