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Antarctic Demolition

Tuesday, 25th December 2012

As ever the start of the Halley season started with the long journey from London to Cape Town and then the flights to Antarctica. We boarded the usual Russian Ilyshun which lands on an ice runway and then did the 5 hour flight from Novo to Halley in a Basler aircraft.

Antarctic Painting – Year 3

Wednesday, 14th November 2012

Well, it’s almost time to head south again for another 5 months of painting, demolition and digging snow.

Halley, the Final Chapter

Monday, 5th March 2012

Over the last three weeks its been all action at Halley to get the base finally finished so that the 14 winterers are able to stay in the base.

Friday 13th is 2 Weeks Late

Sunday, 29th January 2012

adelie-penguin

The season is moving on and there are only four weeks to go before we have to leave on the ship...

Christmas and New Year on the Ice

Tuesday, 3rd January 2012

With the weeks seeming to flash by here at Halley, even Christmas was over fairly quickly...

Happy Christmas from Antarctica!!

Thursday, 22nd December 2011

Over the last couple of weeks the main topic of conversation here at Halley has been food ... do I forsee a Roman style banquet?

Windy Bay Penguin Colony

Sunday, 4th December 2011

Today I was lucky enough to travel the 40kms to Windy Bay where there is an Emperor Penguin colony...

A day in the life…

Sunday, 4th December 2011

Skiing at Halley 6

The work at Halley 6 is progressing and we are told that everything is on schedule!

It nearly gets Dark…

Sunday, 27th November 2011

The highlight of this week was on Thursday when we got up early (5am) for a partial eclipse of the sun...