Falklands historic link to Antarctica exploration unveiled in unique memorial

Saturday, February 28th 2015 - 06:48 UTC

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The Falkland Islands historic link as the gateway for British Antarctic exploration was acknowledged this week with the dedication in Stanley's Dockyard Point of the southern component of a unique memorial to the 28 men and one woman of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), and before that the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) who have perished in the Antarctic since the establishment by the British Government of the first permanent research base there in 1944. Read full article

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golfcronie
Sounds like a well thought out memorial for those intrepid explorers who lost their lives for scientific research. well done the UK.
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Briton
Agreed.
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ilsen
agreed,
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