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What is it like to do fieldwork in Antarctica?

When we are out in the field, we are a team of eight people based in a field camp. We have three large Weatherhaven tents; two for...

On January 21st we headed out for our first major fieldwork in Milorgfjella (pronounced "Mee-lorg-feeyella") about 240 km SSE of the...

Christmas Eve 2016 And so both Christmas and the boat arrived. We had an early Christmas service on Christmas Eve and unloaded the boat...

The MAGIC-DML team have been out on their first major trip from Wasa. We have been to a small nunatak called Fossilryggen about 50 km (31...

Testing, testing, testing! I have never quite come to terms with some stories of expeditions in the old days. They tried to use ponies to...

We were thrilled at the response you gave to our logo contest, and vey humbled by so many fantastic designs. Thank you to all who...

Antarctica is covered by a vast ice sheet (Picture 1). The colours of the ice sheet indicate thickness, with blues showing thinner ice...

In part 1 of this blog about the trucks I covered the modifications made to the Toyota Hilux vehicles by the very talented team of...

Antarctica is not a small place, with an area of about 14 million square km it is about twice the size of Australia. It is covered by...

The Scandinavian mountains and the East Antarctic Heimefrontfjella mountain range (where our fieldwork is based) have several...