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Earlier this week South Africa’s National Research Foundation (NRF) hosted a two-day strategic workshop to discuss a way forward with academic and other scientists who conduct research within the South African National Antarctic Programme (SANAP). The workshop was held at the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO), a NRF National Research Facility, in Observatory, a suburb […]

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EventsNewsSouthern Ocean

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On 20 December this year 55 researchers from 30 nations, 10 of them South Africans, will set off on an international scientific expedition from Cape Town to circumnavigate Antarctica for three months aboard the modern 12 000-tonne Russian polar research vessel Akademik Treshnikov, launched in 2011.  The Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE), set to last until […]

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EventsGough IslandNewsS.A.Agulhas II

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The atmosphere at the East Pier, Cape Town Harbour is always filled with joy, laughter and excitement when the ship returns. Expedition members that overwintered are always eager to get off the ship, to see that family member, that wife, husband, fiancé, girlfriend or boyfriend they have not seen for over a year. Similarly, the […]

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