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Felicity Aston South Pole expedition
Felicity Aston has returned after a successful expedition to the South Pole. more information shortly.
Laws Prize Lectures
The next Laws Prize lecture will feature a special double-bill, with Joanne Johnson and Hamish Pritchard each delivering their Laws Prize lecture at the same event on Wednesday 3rd March 2010. Apologies are offered for it not being possible to stage a lecture in 2009.
Venue: BAS Conference Room, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge
Time: Afternoon. Confirmed timings and further information to be announced nearer to the event.
Please Note:
Lectures are normally given to current BAS staff and are usually very popular, so places are very limited. Any BAS Club member who wishes to attend, please first contact Elizabeth Edwards on 01223 221593 or email eled@bas.ac.uk - no later than 1 week before the lectures to find out if places are available.
Clarkson Farewell - 01 November 2009
Peter Clarkson, one of the BAS Club Committee’s longest serving members, was given a good send off in October by the Club at a special lunch held in Cambridge to mark his retirement from the Committee.
During his 30-year stint, Peter has served as chairman, treasurer and membership secretary. His extensive knowledge of Antarctica and all things polar have been invaluable to the Club, as has his extensive network of contacts in both polar and political circles.
Peter will now devote his time to other pursuits including his chairmanship of the Trans-Antarctic Association and a busy lecturing schedule in both the Antarctic and Arctic.
Read BAS Club Chairman Terry Allen’s appreciation of Peter in the next BAS Club newsletter.
Stop Press: Jan 2010 — Peter has been awarded an MBE in the New Year’s honours list.
CORRECTION TO OBITUARY IN BAS CLUB MAGAZINE NO 60
The obituary of Gary Trevor contains one error on page 27. Gary Trevor served as a member of the Bransfield’s crew from 1973 until 1977, and not from 1973–1987 as stated.
BAS CLUB NEWSLETTERS ON LINE FROM NL 53 MAY 2005 ISSUE ONWARDS
From BAS Club Newsletter 53 onwards, the Newsletter is available on-line in PDF format. The Newsletters can be downloaded from the Members-Only section of the website.
INDEX TO BAS CLUB NEWSLETTERS 1 to 50
An Index of Newsletters 1–50 is available as a paper copy from the Secretary at a cost of £3. The Index can be downloaded from the Members-Only section of the BAS Club website.
SECRETS OF ANTARCTICA — a DVD FROM BAS
There are four TV programmes on the DVD containing programmes screened screened on BBC World. The first programme is focused on Operation Tabarin. The second on the clean-up of abandoned bases. The third on BAS Science today. The fourth programme is a film made by Angus Erskine in 1957 of the skills needed for field travel with dogs.
The DVD is available from the Information Office at BAS, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0ET. Cost is £12.50 with 0.75p extra for postage and packing. There is a special price for BAS Club Members. Contact BAS Information Office.
TOPOGRAPHICAL SURVEY AND MAPPING OF BAT — 1944–1986
Copies of this book on the history of BAT/FID surveys by M B McHugo is available through the British Antarctic Survey. The book is priced at £30. Please note that postage is £3.10 for UK delivery; £4.44 for European delivery; £7.40 for delivery to the rest of the world. Cheques should be made payable to NERC. You may print the flyer if you wish for a hard copy.
THE SILENT SOUND: CLIFF PEARCE’S BOOK ABOUT THE FIRST YEARS AT FOSSIL BLUFF
The Silent Sound; The Story of Two Years in Antarctica and the First Winter Occupation of Alexander Island by Cliff Pearce
According to the publisher’s promotional material.
This an enthralling adventure in mysterious land of snow and isolation. The Silent Sound is Cliff Pearce’s wonderful account of the time he spent on British bases in Antarctica forty years ago when facilities for scientists were even more primitive, and conditions more dangerous than they are today. Nonchalantly amusing, Pearce’s excitement and sense of privilege at being in Antarctica shine through in breathtaking descriptions of the glacial landscape. Cliff Pearce is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a member of the Antarctic and British Antarctic Survey Clubs. An Antarctic mountain, Pearce Dome, was named for him.
ANARE CLUB OF AUSTRALIA
The Secretary of the ANARE Club has phoned me to send greetings from the ANARE Club and to offer hospitality to FIDs who may find themselves in Australia at around Midwinter. A number of Midwinter dinners are held each year in June reflecting the large distances involved between centres of population in Australia. Dinners are held in Canberra, Melbourne, Brisbane, Townsville, Adelaide, Hobart, Sydney, Alice Springs and Perth. Details of the ANARE contacts at these locations and details of the dinners are found on the ANARE Club website.www.Anareclub.org.au. The ANARE club website could be of interest all members of the BAS Club. You can contrast and compare the offerings of the two clubs. ANARE produce the magazine Aurora.
Harry Hudson is the Secretary of the ANARE Club. He may be contacted at:
The Secretary of the ANARE Club
GPO Box 2534W
Melbourne 3001
Australia
Julian Paren
ANTARCTIC BOOKS FOR SALE
Mike Bell has a readers collection of about 100 Antarctic books for sale. He has agreed to donate 10% of the proceeds to the BAS Club Benevolent Fund. Anyone interested should contact Mike Bell by email: mbell@glos.ac.uk, or phone 01242 521135 evenings and Mike Bell will send a list.
PORT LOCKROY VISITOR GUIDE
The Port Lockroy Visitor Guide is available here as a PDF document.
Port Lockroy Visitor Guide (pdf 611K)
Please note: in order to be able to view this, you will need to have the Adobe Acrobat Reader program which can be downloaded for free from
the Adobe web site.
HALLEY FIDS WEBSITE
There is now a website dedicated to Halley ex-Fids which aims to compile an unofficial history of Halley Bay, Antarctica, from the viewpoint of the people who lived there and also put and keep former Halley Bay residents in touch with each other through the Internet as well as sharing information and news. Interested? Then have a look at the Z-Fids Website
COOL ANTARCTICA WEBSITE
There is a website that may be of great interests to Fids, run by Paul West, who was a marine biologist at Signy from 1985-87. The website is Cool Antarctica.
The site contains a Fids section to which you are invited to register, and you can choose to provide an e-mail address to correspond with other registered Fids.
SOUTH GEORGIA ASSOCIATION
The South Georgia Association was formed to give a voice to those who care about South Georgia. South Georgia has an interesting heritage, is environmentally vulnerable, very precious, and very worth defending and preserving.
British Antarctic Survey Homepage