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Quick pic from Antarctica. A lovely day here. 10kts and -40c. It almost feels like spring! By Brian Newham…
Ice Team Gets Behind HQ Swimmers
We’re not quite sure when you are going to get to dip your toes but we are thinking of you. Great commitment and a lot of hard work already under the speedos for a very worthy cause. Good luck and go, go, go! [Tris and Hugh from Operations HQ will be swimming the English Channel at some point between now and September 4th as part of a four-man relay to raise money for Seeing is Believing. If you…
YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED: The next five…
Q: Why didn’t you use a helicopter? (by Lorna Wright) A: The challenge was to try and cross the continent on the surface during the winter. Helicopters and various fixed-wing aircraft do operate in the Antarctic in the summer months but even then they are often at their limit in terms of the conditions. They all leave the continent at the end of the summer because in the winter its too cold and…
Fact of the Day:
Ice shelves – (not to be confused with yesterdays fact about Ice sheet) An ice shelf is a thick floating platform of ice that forms when a glacier or ice sheet flows down to the coastline and onto the ocean surface. Other than in Antarctica ice shelves are only found in Greenland and Canada. The thickness of ice shelves can range anywhere from about 100 meters up to 1000 metres. Much of…
