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UK Antarctic Heritage Trust celebrates 80th birthday of Port Lockroy
The UK Antarctic Heritage Trust is recalling ... in 1944 it was selected as Base A – the first continuously occupied British base in Antarctica – as part of the secret wartime mission ...
Applications open for the world’s most remote jobs – with all expenses paid
The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is hiring carpenters, chefs, electricians and plumbers to take remote work all the way to the seventh continent. A world leader in polar research and operations, ...
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Brits can earn over £50,000 abroad with all living costs covered - but there's a catch
BAS delivers the UK's national capabilities in polar exploration, propelling science forward at the poles and cementing the UK's influence in Antarctic treaties.
Antarctic research has long been hamstrung by reliance on one icebreaker and sporadic funding. That might be about to change
A parliamentary report has called on for a second icebreaking vessel and more reliable funding for Antarctic research.
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Snow, penguins and constant daylight for Christmas at the bottom of the world
The 39-year-old, from Leeds beat thousands of other applicants to travel 9,000 miles to help run the base for the charity, UK Antarctic Heritage Trust. Once a British military site and research ...
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'My Christmas will be surrounded by penguins'
The 24-year-old, from Derby, is working for the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust (UKAHT), managing the world's southernmost museum in Port Lockroy, a British Antarctic base on Goudier Island ...
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UK scientists plan to monitor krill from space as species threatened by warming
Rod Downie, chief polar adviser at WWF-UK, said: “Antarctic krill are the superheroes of the Southern Ocean. These tiny, unsung heroes are the beating heart of the Southern Ocean, sustaining i ...