An unscheduled voyage on South Africa’s second Antarctic supply ship, the S.A. Agulhas, took place over 14 or 15 April to 4 May 1980 to Antarctica in response to news of an ill member of the 21st Overwintering Team at the SANAE III base in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica. A published report taken from Antarctic, […]
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The Antarctic Legacy of South Africa launched its first book yesterday at an evening reception in the Department of Botany and Zoology at Stellenbosch University. Brian Huntley’s Marion Island diary from 1965/66 “Exploring a sub-Antarctic Wilderness” tells what it was like to be a team member of the 21st and 22nd Teams as the botanist […]
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On the night of 26 June 1966 the main accommodation building on the island, known as Marion House, burnt to the ground. One of the consequences of the fire was the loss of all the team photographs from 1948 onwards that were mounted inside the building’s lounge. For several years the Antarctic Legacy of South […]
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