On 18 March 2011, South Africa marked a defining moment in its polar and sub-Antarctic history with the official opening of the new research base on Marion Island. Fifteen years later, the base stands as a testament to perseverance, vision, and scientific ambition. Built over a decade in one of the most remote and weather-beaten […]
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For many South Africans who travelled south aboard her, the S. A. Agulhas was more than just a ship. She was a gateway to the Southern Ocean and Antarctica, carrying generations of scientists, technicians, crew members and expeditioners into one of the most remote environments on Earth. For more than three decades, from 1977 until […]
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On 5 March 2022, the wreck of the expedition ship Endurance was discovered deep beneath the ice-covered waters of the Weddell Sea, more than a century after it was lost during the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1917 led by Ernest Shackleton. The ship had been crushed by pack ice and sank in November 1915, yet […]
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