Ramblings to and from Antarctica

Although I am now back in the UK (and have been for some time) I still have a couple of posts to round off the trip. My route out of Halley ...

This is either end of the history wall here at Halley. It has a photograph of all the wintering teams from 1956 until 2016 (when we stopped ...

I am at Halley to oversee the automation project. Due to the uncertain state of the glaciological state of the Brunt Iceshelf, BAS has deci...

Back at Halley, but not quite the same as the one I left 5 years ago. The glaciology of the Brunt iceshelf forced us to move the station to ...

It's about 1450km from Sky Blu to Halley, just over 5hrs 30mins flying time in a Twin Otter. Initially over mountains that were soon lef...

So what was I doing at Sky-Blu? It was part of the UK Antarctic Meteorites project - see https://ukantarcticmeteorites.com/ for all the deta...

Sky Blu is an area of blue ice right at the bottom of the peninsula. As its hard blue ice we can land planes using wheel which means we can ...