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John Cooper, ALSA’s Principal Investigator, is attending the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Open Science Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia this week.  He will present a paper with the title  “Uncovering forgotten history: ship wrecks, fatalities and female pioneers at sub-Antarctic Marion Island” on Friday in a session entitled “Footprints in Antarctica, and Antarctica’s footprint: perspectives […]

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The primary aim of the Antarctic Legacy of South Africa project is to preserve the human history of South Africa’s presence and activities in Antarctica and the sub-Antarctic over the last 70 years. To help create awareness of its work it has been developing an international presence by attending and presenting at meetings around the […]

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Marion IslandNews

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The Norwegian sealer S.S. Solglimt was deliberately beached in a sinking condition on 16 October 1908 in Ship’s Cove, Marion Island after hitting the then uncharted Solglimt Blinder a little way offshore.  The whole ship’s complement of around 75 men got ashore safely and erected huts to live in until they were rescued a month […]

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