The first and main aim of our project is to preserve South Africa’s rich involvement in the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic regions. In order to fulfil this never-ending task we collect and store the stories, memories, photographs and other documents pertaining to South Africans in the Antarctic and on the sub-Antarctic islands since the turn of […]
Ornithologists Fabrice Le Bouard and Peter Ryan (right) up early to observe birds at sea as the Akademik Treshnikov neared Heard Island this week Professor Peter Ryan, Director of the Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology since 2014 at South Africa’s University of Cape Town was awarded A-rated scientist status by the National Research Foundation last month. This is the […]
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.” […]
