The H.M.S. Terror, a Hecla class 326 (or 340) ton Royal Navy bomb vessel constructed in 1812, sailed past South Africa’s sub-Antarctic Marion Island’s north coast on 22 April 1840 with Commander Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier (16 August 1796 – after 1848?) as its Captain. The Terror was on an Antarctic expedition with Crozier as second-in-command […]
The Antarctic Legacy of South Africa had a successful attendance at the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Open Science Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia last week. ALSA was represented at the conference by Principal Investigator John Cooper, Project Manager and Archivist Ria Olivier and Anché Louw, Science Communicator. In total ALSA presented four oral talks […]
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It is announced that Professor Steven L. Chown, Head of the School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Australia has been elected the President of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) at its 34th biennial meeting that ended today in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Prior to moving to Australia, Steven Chown was a long-serving member of […]
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