Marion IslandNews

A function is held each year as part of the annual take-over on Marion Island, when the old team is formally relieved of its duties.  The members of the new team are then responsible from that moment onwards for their individual duties (whether field assistant or base personnel), as well as for the maintenance of […]

Marion IslandNews

“Synergy is the creation of a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts” The Antarctic Legacy of South Africa project of Stellenbosch University is collaborating closely with University of South Africa (UNISA) postgraduate student Tara van Niekerk on her archaeological research at Marion Island, now being written up for a Master of […]

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Following on from Bianca Lawrence donating her library of a 100 or so Antarctic books to the JS Gericke Library of Stellenbosch University via the African Legacy of South Africa (click here) another “Antarctophile” will donate his own collection to the library. For many years, now-retired coastal and marine scientist Patrick Morant has been passing on Antarctic […]