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British Services team ready for two-month Antarctica expedition to honour Captain Scott

Friday, November 25th 2011 - 14:02 UTC
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The Service personnel who will take part in the British Services Antarctic Expedition 2012 have recently completed their final mission rehearsal exercise (MRX) in the Ecrins National Park region of the French Alps. Read full article

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  • briton

    And honour him they will,
    In the most proudest tradition,

    Isn’t it great to be British,
    .

    Nov 25th, 2011 - 02:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • J.A. Roberts

    Certainly greater than being an Argie...

    Nov 25th, 2011 - 04:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Conqueror

    Being a penguin or a squid is better than being an Argie...

    Nov 25th, 2011 - 07:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Marcos Alejandro

    Please Brutish stop boozing, buying clothes, holidaying, take responsibility for your dental care!!! ... and pay for it.

    “British people among world's ugliest, according to BeautifulPeople.com”

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/relationships/6542263/British-people-among-worlds-ugliest-according-to-BeautifulPeople.com.html

    Nov 25th, 2011 - 07:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Wireless

    I have difficulty naming any Argentine explorer of note, they are a bunch of johnny-come-latelys, and would sooner put their hand in your pocket and sell their grandmothers than do anything really honourable, in fact I can't see them ever doing anything that might be a little bit hard, requiring a bit of effort.

    Nov 25th, 2011 - 07:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • stick up your junta

    I have difficulty naming any Argentine explorer of note

    All joking apart they are thin on the ground, like Argie war hero's

    Pages in category “Argentine explorers”The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes (learn more).

    AJuan Bautista Ambrosetti
    MFrancisco Moreno
    SEmilio Scotto
    José María Sobral

    Nov 25th, 2011 - 08:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Wireless

    I'll have to read about those guys, never heard of them before, and I suspect neither has 40 Million RGs

    Nov 25th, 2011 - 08:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • SamSalzman

    When you think of a famous explorer, one may thing of David Livingston, James Cook, Henry Stanley, Captain Scott, Christopher Columbus. Not those people.

    And Marcos, since when was this a page about teeth? Are you going to start banging on about how we are “violating Argentine territory”, seeing as Argentine territory seems to stretch to just about anything south of the Equator?

    Nov 25th, 2011 - 08:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • geo

    i remember a watched BBC documentary tv film which narrated
    how Scott was inept behind Amudsen ....!!

    Nov 25th, 2011 - 09:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • THOR94

    @4 Marcos Alejandro At what point did it become apparent to you that your post had anything to do with this at all and contributed something intelligent towards the discussion of this page.....

    Nov 25th, 2011 - 10:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Wireless

    Well that was enlightening, Ambrosetti was a guy who investigated the North West of Argentina, and dug a few holes. Moreno followed the Conquest of the Desert and 'discovered' and named everything, maybe if they hadn't killed everyone they could have asked them where things were, and what they were called. Scotto appears to have ridden a Motorcycle a long way, great. Sobral went outside Argentina and tagged along with the Swedish, studied in Europe, banged out 9 kids to a Swedish lass, and then helped his country attempt to establish its late 'claim' to Antarctica.

    Such a creditable exploration team, they must be dead proud these RGs.

    Nov 25th, 2011 - 11:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • briton

    9 geo /how Scott was inept behind Amudsen
    the blog is scott not amudson,
    always negative vibes,

    Nov 26th, 2011 - 12:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • SamSalzman

    Cue Mercosur to complain about our “remilitarisation” of the South Atlantic.

    Geo, I can't seem to recall hearing much about the Argentine team in this race...

    Nov 26th, 2011 - 06:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • geo

    **13 Sam

    i am not Argentine
    BUT
    everybody could discuss every article if they want here.

    Nov 27th, 2011 - 09:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • lsolde

    l've just finished reading a book by Scotto. He rode a Honda Goldwing around the world for ten years & says he clocked up something like 450,000 kms.
    Actually wasn't a bad book.
    Seems he was a bit of a casanova too! Or so he says.
    Good luck to the boys trekking through British territory.
    Stick a few flags here & there so the johnny-come-latelys realise whose territory it is!

    Nov 27th, 2011 - 11:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • briton

    HMS Edinbourgh is on it way to ascension isle,
    perhaps something is in the wind?

    Nov 28th, 2011 - 01:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Pirat-Hunter

    end the military occupation of Islas Malvinas Argentine, we support a nuclear weapon defence program in south America to rid our land from imperial british occupation, execute the british pirats and all their allyes and agents.

    Nov 28th, 2011 - 09:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • SamSalzman

    Just try using nukes against us. We'll ensure you are still picking through the rubble of your urban centres half a century from now.

    Nov 28th, 2011 - 06:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    Prat-Junta #17
    Again, you want to kill people living peacefully on the Falklands, there no Malvinas.
    If your coutry ever gets nuclear weapons and still exibits child like rages and tantrums like they do (with CFK just learning 'not to lose her temper') then guess what may well happen.
    Just ONE Astute Class submarine could sit off the coast and destroy ANY target that we wished to in you country and you would not retaliate because if you did Argentina would be destroyed, never to recover.
    THOSE ARE THE 'FACTS'.

    Nov 28th, 2011 - 06:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • briton

    the civilised world will never allow argentina to play with matches,
    let alone her children, sorry .

    Nov 28th, 2011 - 06:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0

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