Hannes and John share their names as Hannes (Johannes) in the Afrikaans language is John in English. Although that is not all they have in common. Antarctic Legacy of South Africa (ALSA) connect John Knight with Hannes La Grange’s family and the common factor is the Trans Antarctic Expedition. John Knight emailed the project […]
The Publication “Die Wit Horison” was written in Afrikaans by Dr André le Roux van der Merwe, Medical Doctor of SANAE 1 – South Africa’s first Antarctic expedition of 1959-1961. Until now, this has meant that the book has only been accessible to Afrikaans readers and not to wider national and international audiences. The text […]
Pierre Pistorius (Department of Zoology, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa) and colleagues have published open access in the journal Ecology and Evolution on the at-sea movements of satellite-tracked King Penguins Aptenodytes patagonicus from South Africa’s Marion Island. The paper’s abstract follows: “King penguins make up the bulk of avian biomass on a […]
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