“Pain forms the Character: Doc Bester, Cat hunters & Sealers” compiled and edited by Nico de Bruyn & Chris Oosthuizen and the third book to published by the Antarctic Legacy of South Africa is a journey through decades of extraordinary sub -Antarctic wilderness adventure. Through first-hand accounts, it captures the nostalgia, blood, sweat and tears […]
Durban Museum staffers Mmatjie Mashao with a skin of an Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross Thalassarche carteri and David Allan holding a giant petrel Macronectes sp., next to the cabinet holding more specimens, fittingly photographed on Antarctica Day (coincidentally also World AIDS Day, hence their lapel ribbons) The on-line SPRI Polar Directory hosted by the University of […]
The on-line SPRI Polar Directory hosted by the University of Cambridge’s Scott Polar Research Institute provides “brief details of libraries, museums and ganisations with interests relating to the polar and cold regions; that is, to the Arctic and Antarctic and to all parts of the world where ice, snow and permafrost are to be found.” […]
