Ornithologists Fabrice Le Bouard and Peter Ryan (right) up early to observe birds at sea as the Akademik Treshnikov neared Heard Island this week Professor Peter Ryan, Director of the Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology since 2014 at South Africa’s University of Cape Town was awarded A-rated scientist status by the National Research Foundation last month. This is the […]
One of the last feral sheep on Marion Island, caught in February 1972, photograph by Valdon Smith In the days before deep freezes that allow the long-term storage of fresh meat, Merino sheep were taken to Marion Island from the earliest days of occupation in 1948 for two decades. The last batch arrived ashore in […]
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Wilhelm Verwoerd, Eduard van Zinderen Bakker, Junior and Brian Huntley confer inland of “Penis Rock”, Marion Island, March 1966 In January 1965 the First Biological & Geological Expedition sailed for Marion Island on the R.S.A., South Africa’s first Antarctic supply ship, then only three years old. The expedition was the brainchild of Eduard Meine van […]
