In the 1920s and 1930s Quinton Horace Bullard, later a Commander in the South African Navy Reserve, travelled south from Cape Town as a radio operator on several sealing and whaling voyages, visiting the sub-Antarctic islands of Marion, Kerguelen and Heard. He later wrote a 75-page account describing his southern sojourns. The typescript has remained […]
The Antarctic Legacy of South Africa will host a Midwinter Bring & Braai in the Western Cape for SANAE, Marion and Gough overwinterers and take-over personnel, along with their families and friends. Date: Saturday 25 June 2016, from 17h30 until late. Venue: Markötter Sports Complex, Paul Roos Gymnasium, Stellenbosch. Please bring your own food, drinks […]
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Bianca Lawrence, a Facebook friend of the Antarctica Legacy of South Africa, recently made contact with the project to say that she was downsizing and needed to dispose of her collection of 150-odd books on Antarctica, offering them to ALSA. Bianca has written to ALSA of her interest in polar literature: “I was on the […]
