The S.A. Agulhas II pulled in at East Pier, Victoria & Alfred Waterfront midday on the 7th of February this year. It has been a very successful year on the continent for the 55th SANAE Overwintering Team, as well as for scientists, maintenance team (returning later this month) and crew on-board the S.A. Agulhas II […]
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 […]
