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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John Cooper, ALSA’s Principal Investigator attended a Multidisciplinary Conference on the Historical Antarctic Sealing Industry at the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, UK on 19 & 20 September 2016. He presented a paper on the wrecking of the Solglimt and rescue of its crew at Marion Island in 1908, with co-authors Jaco Boshoff, Social History […]
The Third Joint Conference of the Humanities and Social Sciences Expert Group and the History Expert Group of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) with the theme “Depths and Surfaces: Understanding the Antarctic Region through the Humanities and Social Sciences” will be held at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of […]
