Tag: RFA Sir Tristram

• Journey to the Antarctic: 1) Southampton to the Falkland Islands (1982)

  

  On 21st September 1982, I boarded one of the British Antarctic Survey’s ships, RRS John Biscoe, bound for the Antarctic. I was heading for the BAS base on Signy Island, in the South Orkney Islands (above and below), where I was going to spend 18 months studying the cold hardiness of the few insect and…

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  April 2, 2020

  Antarctica, Brazil, Falkland Islands, Travel

  BAS, British Antarctic Survey, Falklands conflict, Falklands war, Fid, Fids, Port Stanley, RFA Sir Tristram, RRS John Biscoe