Port Lockroy in Antarctica

15 September 2015 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  6 minutes

Base A © flickr.com - Eugene Regis/cc-by-2.0

Base A © flickr.com – Eugene Regis/cc-by-2.0

Port Lockroy is a natural harbour on the north-western shore of Wiencke Island in Palmer Archipelago of the British Antarctic Territory. In 1996 the Port Lockroy base was renovated and is now a museum and post office operated by the United Kingdom Antarctic Heritage Trust.   read more…

Neumayer-Station III in the Antarctic

8 August 2015 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  6 minutes

© Felix Riess/cc-by-sa-3.0-de

© Felix Riess/cc-by-sa-3.0-de

Neumayer-Station III, also known as Neumayer III after geophysicist Georg von Neumayer, is a German Antarctic research station of the Alfred-Wegener-Institut. It is located on the approximately 200 metres (660 ft) thick Ekstrom Ice Shelf several kilometres south of Neumayer-Station II. The station’s assembly kit was transported to its current position early in November 2007. It is moving with the shelf ice at about 200 meters per year towards the open sea.   read more…

The research vessel Polarstern

25 November 2014 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  7 minutes

Polarstern arriving at Reykjavik © flickr.com - Bruce McAdam

Polarstern arriving at Reykjavik © flickr.com – Bruce McAdam

Reasearch vessel Polarstern (meaning pole star) is a German research icebreaker of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven. The Polarstern was commissioned in 1982 and is mainly used for research in the Arctic and Antarctica.   read more…

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