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03/12/18

Update February 2018 published

The February 2018 Update of the Trust has been published.

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12/27/17

Article in Geographical Magazine republished

An article in Geographical Magazine has been republished on-line.

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12/03/17

Memorial Point, Lemaire Island

The Trust is delighted that the UK Antarctic Place Names Committee has named a headland on Lemaire Island for further UK personnel who died in Antarctica.

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09/28/17

Antarctic Monument returned to Cambridge

The Antarctic Monument has been returned to its site in Cambridge following renovation

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02/01/17

South 2015 film premiere

South 2015: a voyage to remember premiered at the Royal Geographical Society

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30 April 2014

New Polar Research Vessel Announcement

The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) has announced that a new ice-strengthened vessel will be built for NERC capable of being deployed in both the Arctic and Antarctic.

Category: General

Posted by: JulianParen

For the first time a UK polar-capable vessel will be constructed to take helicopters. Hitherto the BAS research fleet of RRS James Clark Ross and RRS Ernest Shackleton (and the vessels they replaced) had no space for helicopters and HMS Enduance was deployed each Antarctic season with its helicopters to facilitate landings of field parties.

New polar vessel

The new vessel has been specified but not yet designed, so the image released to the media is somewhat of an artist's impresion. It is hoped the vessel will be operational by 2020.

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