Midwinter week is a holiday for the station with all sort of fun activities

It’s midwinter celebration week leading up to the winter solstice in Antarctica, a special time marking the shortest day and slow start back into summer

Over 6,000 people will be heading south to do or support crucial climate and ecosystem science on our station ships and aircraft

Transiting slowly into an icy part of the coast to the next equipment development location for the research project aboard RRSSir David Attenborough

Meet Erebus, the small work boat on the RRSSir David Attenborough. The research program aimed to understand the melting of Greenland glaciers could mean for us, wether that changed water temperature and nutrient or larger scales changes to the big ocean current that shaped the United States climate.

we install this underwater cameras rothera research station as part of a long term plan to monitor the health of the ocean in this area, one of the species we are actually looking at for are krill’s

Ice road truckers, hit your heart out, this is the spectacular journey back to rotheram research station from the Cliff hedge of the brunt ice shelf. The team worked incredibly hard over 9 days to meet the marlic Arctica which pulled up alongside the ice shelf around new year.