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Sharpe of the Antarctic

Following in the footsteps of Scott It’s a hundred years since Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s ill fated expedition to Antarctica, and the anniversary is being marked by many events this year and next....

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Breaking through the Ross Sea ice

Photo taken from our ship, of icebergs in the Ross Sea pack ice We’re breaking through the Ross Sea pack ice at the moment – the ice shelf was named after Captain Sir James Clark Ross who first...

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Stranded on the ice floes

Tom Sharpe continues his journey in the footsteps of Captain Scott, on the 100th anniversary of Scott’s journey to the South Pole… Friday 18 November As the ice charts showed, we reached the edge of...

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Reaching Shackleton’s expedition hut

Taking a circuitous route through the pack ice, we finally made it to Frankin Island at 76 degrees south. We got the ship to within 5 miles, then flew in by helicopter, landing on the sea ice at the...

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Scott’s hut on Cape Evans

So far, the geology on this trip has faced some stiff competion from history and penguins, but on tuesday it came into its own. We moved across McMurdo Sound overnight and into the fast ice on the west...

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The most southerly ship on the planet

On Friday, back in our harbour in the fast ice between Capes Royds and Evans on Ross Island, we realised we are the most southerly ship on the planet. To get here this early in the season we’ve had to...

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The Ross Sea Ice Shelf and beyond

Extending east from Cape Crozier, the front of the Ross Ice Shelf is a 30 metre high vertical wall of ice. It’s a remarkable feature, especially when you realise that it’s fresh water, it’s floating,...

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Farewell to the Antarctic

There has been some rough weather in our last few days – it comes as a surprise when the horizontal surface you’re standing on suddenly has the gradient of one in three! But this is pretty good for the...

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Flippin’ Earth

The Earth’s magnetic poles might feel like a constant – north is north, south is south – but they turn out to be a lot more complicated than that, as we found out yesterday in our event at the British...

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