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Tag: British Antarctic Monument Trust

  • Saturday, February 28th 2015 - 06:48 UTC

    Falklands historic link to Antarctica exploration unveiled in unique memorial

    Governor Roberts, MLA Cheek, and Roderick Rhys-Jones, chairman of the British Antarctic Monument Trust, at the unveiling ceremony

    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.

  • Thursday, February 19th 2015 - 06:15 UTC

    Sculptures dedicated to 29 Britons who lost their lives in Antarctica service

    Oliver Barratt is the sculptor of the Northern and Southern sections of the Antarctic Monument

    A two-part sculpture dedicated to Britons who lost their lives in service of science in Antarctica will be unveiled by a Watford man. Brian Dorsett-Bailey, 75, will officially reveal one of the monuments at Stanley in the Falkland Islands in tribute to the 29 people who have died in British Antarctic Territory, reports the Watford Observer.