Links

The following links may be useful if you are interested in finding out more about the Antarctic.

  • Antarctic Memories Publishing includes the book South of Sixty, life on an Antarctic base, which describes life in the 1960's and contrasts it with the changes of present-day Antarctica.
  • Antarctic Circle is a non-commercial forum and resource on historical, literary, bibliographical, artistic and cultural aspects of Antarctica and the South Polar regions.
  • Antarctic Connection for clothes, travel and books 
  • British Antarctic Survey   Research organisation
  • British Antarctic Survey Club Staff and supporters of the British Antarctic Survey previously the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey
  • Cool Antarctica for lots of information about Antarctica 
  • Falkland Islands Government
  • Falkland Islands Tourism
  • Halley Bay Base Z Information and news from British Base Z in the Weddell Sea
  • HMS Protector Association  of mariners who served on "The best-loved ship in the Royal Navy by those who served on her." THIS LINK IS CURRENTLY BROKEN.
  • How to plan a trip to Antarctica gives useful information about organising the visit of a lifetime.
  • Husky Memorial now sited at Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge for all the huskies that lived and died in the Antarctic helping explorers.  
  • Marguerite Bay - Stories, Anecdotes and Grips - By FIDS for FIDS (and friends and relatives).  The website covers the bases of Adelaide, Detaille, Fossil Bluff, Horseshoe, Rothera and Stonington
  • Penguin resource for more information about penguins
  • Polar Artists Group to see some great paintings
  • Snowsled for expedition clothing and equipment
  • South Georgia Government website (and South Sandwich Islands)
  • South 2015: an Antarctic voyage to remember is a film is about the contribution that Britons have made in the exploration of British Antarctic Territory and the cost in lives lost. It follows the voyage of Antarctic veterans to attend the dedication of the Southern Antarctic Monument in February 2015 and thence to visit the places in the Antarctic Peninsula where those "who lost their lives in Antarctica in pursuit of science to benefit us all" lived, worked and perished. It covers the creation of the Antarctic Memorial in St Paul's Cathedral, the Antarctic Monument at the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge and its Southern counterpart on the waterfront in Stanley, Falkland Islands. It is available on DVD price £15 from briand_b@hotmail.co.uk  
  • United Kingdom Antarctic Heritage Trust for preserving the historic sites operated by FIDS.
  • United States Antarctic Programme
  • White desert tours for truly spectacular tours of the Antarctic from South Africa

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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