In 2001-2002, Erika Nortje went on her first overwintering trip to Marion Island as a field biologist for the Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology at Stellenbosch University being part of the 58th Overwintering Team. Erika fell in love with the island and decided to overwinter for the second time in 2003-2004 as part of the […]
Author Erika Nortje and Wikus van Zyl of AFRICAN SUN MeDIA with the proof copy of Katjagter Erika Nortje, a colleague of the Antarctic Legacy of South Africa at Stellenbosch University’s Department of Botany and Zoology, where she is the Laboratory Manager for the DST-NRF Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology, has written her first […]
On the 20th of December, the same day that the Akademik Treshnikov departed on the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (see more about this departure in the next article), we entertained children at the small amphitheatre of the V&A Waterfront. In order to create Antarctica month awareness, we continued the colouring competition, where children had to colour […]
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