Antarctica in the news

Recently, there have been reports in the press about Britain “claiming” vast areas of Antarctica with the aim of securing mineral rights. This from the Guardian newspaper.
As is often the case with the media the headline misleads you into reading the report; the supposed claim is for areas of the seabed off the Antarctic continent. [...]

Meeting the gang

Peter Bland and Nik Halik were in London this week and arranged an evening for participants and guests, on Wednesday. It was great to meet our new friends and those who might join us in Antarctica.
Petes’ video of previous Antarctica trips is stunning whichever way you look at it, but once you’ve signed up [...]

We are off to Antarctica!

OK so now it’s real! We’ve signed up for an Antarctic Odyssey. We’ll be going in March 2008. But it feels like the journey has already started. As well as being a fantastic trip to the most remote place in the World, there is a purpose to the journey: to explode the possibility of live [...]