The Adventure Ends

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This is where the adventure ends. I was planning to write the final article of the Antarctic series shortly after coming back to the Real World®, but before I knew it, almost two months passed since I left the cold … Continue reading

Good bye Halley. Hello Rothera!

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After 14 months, my time at Halley has come to an end and I have just started my slow journey back to the outside world. First stop: Rothera!

Moving the Big Red

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Two biggest potential headaches we anticipated in relation to the Halley Relocation to the new site have been the Link Bridge and the A Module moves. The bridge move has been completed successfully a couple of days ago and it’s … Continue reading

How to relocate an Antarctic Research Station

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As you may already know, this season marks the start of the project to relocate Halley VI station 24 km east of its current position due to a crack which started opening up in the Brunt Ice Shelf in 2013-2014. … Continue reading

October update from Halley

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Playing catch up with the blog, here’s what we’ve been up to in October. This month marks the end of the winter, and an earlier than usual beginning of the summer season, and a lot of things happened!

September update from Halley

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There’s a lot going on at Halley at the moment, between longer work days and weeks, lots of recreational activities, new people on base and the final month or so of the Antarctica366 project and as a result this blog … Continue reading

Southern Night Sky at Halley

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Following up on the success of the Halley Station 360° Virtual Tour, I’d like to present to you another sphere. For a change, I’ve taken this one outside – just a few weeks ago.

Electronics Engineering at Halley

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The Halley Science Team consists of four people: two Electronics Engineers, an Atmospheric Scientist and the Data Manager. As most of the experiments at Halley use electronic instruments to record data, the two Electronics Engineers are invaluable members of the … Continue reading

Halley Station 360° Virtual Tour

I have recently spent some time taking panoramic pictures of the Halley Interior – you may have seen some of those in the Antarctica366 Project gallery. There is a reason for all this – find out more after the break!

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It’s downhill from now

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It’s now the second half of July and it’s really downhill from now. We’re just about three weeks from the first sunrise and just over a month past the Midwinter Day.