Tag: British Antarctic Survey

• Friday, February 25th 2011 - 21:46 UTC

  HMS Gloucester rounds up Falklands patrol with visit to South Georgia

  

  Royal Navy Portsmouth-based Type 42 destroyer HMS Gloucester, which is nearing the end of a seven-month deployment to the South Atlantic, has rounded off her Falkland Islands’ patrol with a visit to South Georgia.

• Thursday, January 13th 2011 - 14:59 UTC

  New Royal Navy Icebreaker for Falklands and Antarctic patrol

  

  The Royal Navy has revealed it is replacing flood-damaged HMS Endurance with an icebreaker to be named HMS Protector.

• Wednesday, December 15th 2010 - 22:32 UTC

  South Georgia shelf graveyard for mega-icebergs with huge impact on marine life

  

  The huge tabular blocks of ice that frequently break off Antarctica get swept towards the Atlantic and then ground on the shallow continental shelf that surrounds the 170km-long island of South Georgia.

• Monday, December 13th 2010 - 01:19 UTC

  Falklands’ friends: HMS Scott to Antarctica; HMS Invincible to the scrap

  

  The future of the Royal Navy’s ice patrol vessel HMS Endurance may remain in doubt well over a year after it nearly sank in the Straits of Magellan and returned to Portsmouth on the lift ship MV Target, but there is no doubting the UK’s ongoing commitment to the Antarctic Treaty.