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Montevideo, July 3rd 2025 - 07:27 UTC

Tag: British Antarctic Survey (BAS)

  • Thursday, November 26th 2015 - 17:39 UTC

    UK's Cammell Laird will build BAS new £200 million polar research ship

    Cammell Laird chief executive, John Syvret CBE, met with NERC chief operating officer Paul Fox (L) to seal the deal in Birkenhead

    The Birkenhead shipyard Cammell Laird said it saw off competition from Europe and beyond including Korea and Singapore to be selected as the preferred bidder to build a new vessel for the UK-funded Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). The contract was signed last week and it is expected that full production will start in June next year, and on completion the vessel will be operated by NERC’s British Antarctic Survey (BAS).

  • Wednesday, October 14th 2015 - 05:57 UTC

    UK's new polar ship to be built in Britain; delivery scheduled for 2019

    The new ship will be operated by BAS and will be available to the whole U.K. research community, including for postgraduate training.

    The U.K. Government announced on Monday that Cammell Laird in Birkenhead has been selected as the preferred bidder to build the nation’s new £200 million polar research ship. The decision follows a 12-month competitive tender process that involved bids from companies in the U.K., Spain, Norway, Singapore and South Korea.

  • Friday, October 9th 2015 - 08:04 UTC

    Scientists flock to Falklands for vital South Georgia future research strategy

    Scientists and South Georgia representatives at Falklands' Government House on Tuesday evening

    Fifteen scientists from institutes around the world gathered in the Falkland Islands this week to assess future scientific requirements for South Georgia. Project manager Dr Vicky Peck from the British Antarctic Survey based in Cambridge explained that the South Georgia Future Science project wanted to identify what the scientific needs of the island were and how they could best be facilitated.

  • Saturday, February 28th 2015 - 07:03 UTC

    HMS Protector in cleanup and surveying tasks in South Georgia

    HMS Protector at anchor off Grytviken Harbour

    The men and women of HMS Protector have helped the South Georgia Government by carrying out a beach cleanup and glacier survey. 700 miles east of the Falklands, South Georgia is a crescent shaped island with magnificent scenery and wildlife. But over the years debris from several shipwrecks has been washed up on the island’s beaches.

  • 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.

  • Monday, January 26th 2015 - 21:39 UTC

    State of the art polar vessel for BAS to be delivered in 2019

    The design of the news BAS polar vessel which should be ready for operations in 2019 at a cost of £200 million

    A new polar research vessel is currently being designed for the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). The new vessel will be an ice-capable, multi-role polar research and logistics ship which will be used to conduct science and to resupply the BAS stations such as the two in South Georgia, according to the latest South Georgia Newsletter.

  • Wednesday, January 14th 2015 - 07:09 UTC

    HMS Protector involved in CCAMLR inspection in Antarctic waters

    A boarding team from the Ice Patrol heads for the pelagic factory fishing vessel, which was found to be “clean and a professionally run vessel with a friendly crew”

    The Royal Navy’s Ice Patrol Ship has carried out her first inspection of a fishing vessel in Antarctic Waters. HMS Protector met the fishing vessel while on patrol in Antarctic waters and made arrangements to carry out the inspection.

  • Thursday, November 27th 2014 - 06:50 UTC

    Antarctica sea ice thicker than anticipated reveals an autonomous sub

    SeaBed was released in the Antarctic spring seasons of 2010 and 2012 to sample ice thickness in six locations that included the Bellingshausen and Weddell seas (Pic BAS)

    A novel autonomous sub has acquired the first detailed, high-resolution 3D maps of Antarctic sea ice. Released from a ship, the vehicle crisscrossed the underside of the floes, using upward-looking sonar to measure their shape.

  • Thursday, October 9th 2014 - 07:44 UTC

    HMS Iron Duke and Ice Patrol HMS Protector coincide in South Georgia

    Frigate HMS Iron Duke will be patrolling the area including a call at the Falklands

    The Royal Navy HMS Iron Duke on Atlantic Patrol Tasking south berthed this week in South Georgia for a few days where she also met with Ice Patrol HMS Protector which arrived at the islands on her deployment to Antarctica, after battling hurricane force winds and 24 meters waves.

  • Friday, September 19th 2014 - 06:53 UTC

    Top marks for South Georgia Patagonian toothfish fishery

    “South Georgia is a unique environment and the GSGSSI will continue in its efforts to improve all aspects of the fishery,” said GSGSSI Fisheries Collins.

    The South Georgia Patagonian toothfish fishery renewed its five-yearly Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification for the third consecutive time. The fishery, which was first MSC certified in 2004, received an average score of 96 out of 100 in the latest assessment, said the government of South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands (GSGSSI).