Antarctic Guide Blog
China to install five Antarctic telescopes
In the next five years, China will install five astronomical telescopes in the Antarcticareas to conduct research mainly on supernova cosmology, cosmic dark matter, theformation of extra solar planets and fixed stars. Antarctic Guide info@antarcticguide.com www.AntarcticGuide.com Twitter: AntarcticGuide
Crew stabilizes leaking Russian ship near Antarctica, but rescuers still days away
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — The 32 crew members aboard a leaking Russian fishing ship near Antarctica have made progress stabilizing the vessel, and a plane was scheduled to drop them supplies Saturday. Rescue ships, hampered by heavy sea ice, were still several days away. The vessel Sparta hit underwater ice Friday, tearing a 1-foot (30-centimeter) […]
Pearce Blackborrow’s amputation kit surfaces
Experts on the Antiques Roadshow were stunned when a distant cousin of the Queen appeared on the show – and casually revealed she had amputated her own toes with a penknife during an ill-fated Arctic expedition. Rosie Stancer went on the show to get a valuation for a first-aid kit from Sir Ernest Shackleton’s 1914 […]
The heat is on for Australia’s Antarctic ice runway
December 9, 2011 – 8:33 pm, by Ben Sandilands The tracks left by an A319 at Wilkins in perfect conditions : AAD photo Australia’s Antarctic jet flights this season to the Wilkins Blue Ice Runway some 70 kilometres by tractor from the Casey station are scheduled to be the least productive since they began on 11 […]
Mawson artefacts tour Australia
A national touring exhibition of rare Antarctic artefacts has been announced to mark 100 years of achievement on the icy continent since the first Australasian Antarctic Expedition was led by Sir Douglas Mawson in 1911–14. Traversing Antarctica: the Australian Experience has opened at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery today and will tour nationally until 2014.
Japan funding annual Antarctic whale hunt with money from disaster reconstruction budget
By Associated Press, Published: December 8 TOKYO — Japan is spending 2.3 billion yen ($29 million) from its supplementary budget for tsunami reconstruction to fund the country’s annual whaling hunt in the Antarctic Ocean, a fisheries official confirmed Thursday. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia-pacific/japan-funding-annual-antarctic-whale-hunt-with-money-from-disaster-reconstruction-budget/2011/12/08/gIQAPttfeO_story.html
Just a regular start to the Antarctic cruise season
As Christmas approaches, the Antarctic cruise season is a month old and taking its familiar course. There have been a few rough crossing of the Drake Passage, and not only was the Lemaire Channel block for the first few voyages venturing south but there were even problems getting into Cuverville Island. Clipper Adventurer has problems […]
Huge iceberg forces end to Australian Antarctic mission
(Reuters) – A giant iceberg has forced an Australian Antarctic team to abandon a summer pilgrimage to the base built by the nation’s most famous Antarctic explorer, Douglas Mawson, upsetting planned celebrations for the centenary of Mawson’s expedition. The iceberg, known as B9B and about 100 km (60 miles) long, has drifted into Commonwealth Bay […]
Fishing boat hits iceberg in Southern Ocean
A Russian-flagged fishing boat, in distress after hitting an iceberg in Antarctica’s Ross Sea, can be saved and will probably resume fishing, its US owner says. But Andrey Kulish of San Diego’s Sedna Industries Inc says the 23-year-old Sparta needed assistance from boats heading toward it. http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/6150088/Fishing-boat-hits-iceberg-in-Southern-Ocean
For polar enthusiasts SPRI in Cambridge UK is a must
The Polar Museum is part of the Scott Polar Research Institute at Cambridge University. The Polar Museum is open Tuesday to Saturday, 10.00am to 4.00pm The miserable deaths suffered by Scott and his companions on their way back from the South Pole is one of the most terrible stories in British history. It is told at […]