Tag: Rothera

• Tuesday, December 21st 2021 - 09:17 UTC

  BAS 2021/22 Antarctic summer field season underway; Rothera/Falklands air link twice a week

  

  Science and support teams from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) are gearing up for the start of the Antarctic summer field season. All five BAS research stations will be open and undertaking essential science research after a year’s break caused by Covid-19 last season. This will be another challenging season with ongoing Covid-19 protocols to maintain safety for our staff and collaborators.

• Friday, October 8th 2021 - 09:10 UTC

  Falklands' decisive in supplying Covid-19 vaccines to BAS Antarctic base Rothera

  

  The BBC has reported that nine months after it was rolled out, the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine has finally reached the Antarctic. It was flown in, via the Falkland Islands, this week to immunize the 23 staff members who've been keeping the British Antarctic Survey, BAS, Rothera research base running through the polar winter.

• Monday, January 25th 2021 - 09:07 UTC

  Work starts at Antarctica's Rothera Research Station Discovery Building

  

  The next stage of building a scientific support facility in Antarctica has started and to avoid the risk of introducing COVID-19 to the British Antarctic Survey’s (BAS) Rothera Research Station, the construction team spent two weeks in quarantine and had three Covid-19 tests prior to making the 11,000-kilometer voyage by ship.

• Monday, October 15th 2018 - 08:24 UTC

  Preparing Antarctica's Rothera to accommodate the RSS Sir David Attenborough

  

  An international team of builders is preparing to ship an entire kit of parts from the UK to create a new wharf in the Antarctic. The work is part of the £100m upgrade of the Rothera research station to accommodate its new vessel, the RSS Sir David Attenborough. Almost 4,000 tons of equipment and materials will be shipped 11,000km next month.