North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers (NEIMME)

Via Zoom

There is a lecture to the Young Members Group on Thursday 23^rd February at 1800hrs, which should prove to be a rare view of life on the frozen Southern Island some years ago.

ANTARCTICA: Life on a British Antarctic Station, BASE ‘H’ – Signy Island, A Trip Back in Time

By Mark Sanders. 

Thursday the 25th of February at 6pm (Zoom open from 5:30pm). The ZOOM link is here: https://zoom.us/j/98857693605?pwd=NUZVUkM1Y1JBRXU4d2pVN3pYbW5rUT09  

Signy Island is situated in the South Orkney Islands, a subantarctic group of islands positioned at the northern end of the Weddell Sea, approximately 375 miles north-east of the Antarctic Peninsula tip. Given their geographical latitude of 60-degrees South, the islands lie roughly 400 miles north of the Antarctic Circle, in a relatively warm region of the Antarctic, playfully referred to by others in the polar community as the ’Banana Belt’.

Mark will endeavour to give an insight into what it was like to live and work on the Signy Island (Station-H) biological research station nearly four decades ago, in a time before an ability to communicate instantly with the outside world was commonplace. The islands abundant wildlife, and its impact on the science, will also be briefly discussed. During his time ‘South’, the base was operated as a wintering station by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). Today, it is maintained by the BAS as a summer-only station.

We  would like as many members as possible to attend, to show support for our Young Members Lecture series.

 

 

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