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08/26/10
Dates for St Paul's dedication
The date for the dedication in St Paul's Cathedral is either 10 or 11 May 2011
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06/27/10
Planning permission for sculpture in Cambridge
Cambridge City Council grants planning permission
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06/22/10
Scott's great legacy
Successful fund raising event to mark the Centenary of the departure from Cardiff of the Terra Nova expedition
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06/05/10
Generous donation accepted for cartoon
Trustees accept donation for Ed McLachlan's penguins
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05/14/10
Memorial go ahead from St Paul's Cathedral
Permission has been granted by the Cathedral authorities to install the Antarctic Memorial
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26 August 2010
The date for the dedication in St Paul's Cathedral is either 10 or 11 May 2011
The date for the dedication of the St Paul's memorial is either Tuesday 10 May or Wednesday 11 May 2011. It appears that the other two dates suggested by St Paul's, 25 May and 7 June, are not convenient to a number of parties the...
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27 June 2010
Cambridge City Council grants planning permission
Cambridge City Council has given planning permission for the northern part of the monumental sculpture which is to be sited alongside the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge. The sculpture is made of two large pieces of smooth...
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22 June 2010
Successful fund raising event to mark the Centenary of the departure from Cardiff of the Terra Nova expedition
Three thousand pounds was raised at the event organised with the National Museum Wales to mark the departure from Cardiff of the Captain Scott's ill-fated Terra Nova expedition on 15 June 1910. The people of Wales and in particular...
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05 June 2010
Trustees accept donation for Ed McLachlan's penguins
A very substantial and generous donation has been accepted by the Trustess for the original cartoon which we posted on the website last May. I spotted in Private Eye and tracked down the cartoonist Ed McLachlan and thought it...
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14 May 2010
Permission has been granted by the Cathedral authorities to install the Antarctic Memorial
The Fabric Committee and the Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral have now given permission for the Antarctic Memorial to be installed in the crypt of the cathedral. The site of the memorial is located adjacent to the Nelson Chamber in the...
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12 April 2010
Channel 5 is broadcasting National Geographic Channel's a series following Ice Patrol Ship HMS Endurance working in the British Antarctic Territory
Supporters of the British Antarctic Monument Trust will be interested in a new series on the Antarctic from National Geographic Channel also being broadcast on Channel 5 on Friday evenings at 8.00pm. The programme 'Ice Patrol '...
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01 March 2010
BBC Radio 4 play focusses on the widow of FID returning his ashes to his beloved Antarctic
Prolific playwrite Jim Eldridge was inspired by a visit to the Antarctic Peninsula and the crosses at Petermann Island to write a fictional play about a widow of a FID (staff of the British Antarctic Survey) who planned to return his...
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18 January 2010
Felicity Aston leads the Kaspersky Commonwealth Womens' South Pole Expedition to a successful conclusion.
Felicity Aston returned to a raptuorous reception at the Royal Commonwealth Society in London last week after leading eight women from the Commonwealth countries of Cyprus, Ghana, India, Singapore, Brunei, New Zealand, Jamaica and the...
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30 November 2009
Ed Mclachlan donates a cartoon to the British Antarctic Monument Trust
Back in May I spotted a cartoon in Private Eye and tracked down cartoonist Ed McLachlan and thought it captured the occasional dissoluteness that sweeps over base life. Having wintered in Halley Bay we were never visited by a...
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28 November 2009
HMS Protector Association is supporting the work of the Trust
The HMS Protector Association has been in touch to draw the attention of the Trustees to the deaths of two seaman, Leading Seaman Reg Hodge and Able Seaman Lane, who lost their lives whilst prepping a depth charge for seismic research...
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20 October 2009
Nikki Gemmell, Australian author is supporting the Trust
Nikki Gemmell the Australian author of the Antarctic novel Shiver has made a generous donation to the British Antarctic Monument Trust. I came across Nikki's extraordinary anonymous novel The Bride Stripped Bare several years...
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16 June 2009
Following an appeal in the BAS Club Magazine, for news of those who died, Ian Boyd has written about John Anderson.
John died with Robert Atkinson in a crevassse accident at Rothera in May 1981. John was one of Ian's closest friends, they studied together at Aberdeen. The letter can be found in the Memories section.
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07 June 2009
Ice depth radar, first pioneered by Jeremy Bailey used to reveal secrets of a mountain range as big as the Alps hidden beneath the Antarctic ice for 14 million years
A range of mountains lying beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, similar in size and shape to the Alps, has been surveyed using an ice depth radar technique pioneered by in the sixties by Jeremy Bailey , who lost his life during one...
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20 April 2009
An article in the Surrey Advertiser prompted a warm response of friends and family of Neville Mann
Following an article in the Surrey Advertiser at the beginning of April asking for information about the family of Neville Mann, the Trust was contacted by his brother David and a number of people that had known Neville Mann in his...
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20 April 2009
The polar explorer and adventurer Felicity Aston has agreed to act as an Ambassador for the British Antartic Monument Trust.
The British Antarctic Monument Trust is delighted to announce that Felicity Aston , the polar explorer and adventurer, has agreed to act as an Ambassador for the British Antartic Monument Trust. Her role will be to assist in the...
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01 April 2009
Donation of the rights to pictures of the cross and cairn at Petermann Island
Rick Du Boisson , an English photographer living in Gainesville, Florida has assigned the rights to two photographs of the cross and cairn at Petermann Island which he took whilst touring in the peninsular. Trust Chairman, Rod Rhys...
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28 March 2009
Trustees use local papers to track down families and friends
Ian Gibson who worked with Neville Mann at Halley Bay in 1963 contacted the Surrey Advertiser at the end of March and asked Beverley Woolford to run an article about the British Antarctic Monument Trust, BAMT. The only scrap of...
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26 March 2009
Minister of Energy and Climate Change recognises the debt to those killed in the Antarctic in the pursuit of science at 50th anniversary celebration of the signing of the Antarctic Treaty
Ed Miliband, Minister of Energy and Climate Change spoke at a reception at Lancaster House about the debt we owe to those killed in the Antarctic in the pursuit of science since the first permanent British base was set up at Port...
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16 March 2009
Three well known antarctic personalities have agreed to act as Ambassadors
Three well known antarctic personalities, John Killingbeck, Paul Rose, and Dr Russell Thompson have agreed to act as Ambassadors for the Antarctic Monument Trust. They all lecture frequently and act as guides and interpreters on...
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22 February 2009
Fifty year anniversary of the loss of Dennis Bell and Alan Sherman
Ken Gibson reports that it is possible that the Brazilian Base, Comandante Ferraz, will be requested through the Brazilian Naval Attache in London to take an interest in the graves and cairns at Admiralty Bay. He has been concerned...
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15 February 2009
Signy, holed by an iceberg, and the men lost at Horseshoe
David McDowell has writen from Australia In memory of David Statham, Stanley Black and Geoff Stride which we have posted in the memorial section of the website. After a year aclimitisation at the base on Signy Island he took the...
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11 April 2008
Review of other polar memorials and search for possible sites
The artist and designer Graeme Wilson joined, Chairman of the Trust, Rod Rhys Jones at the end of March 2008 on a visit to St Paul's Cathedral to explore how to develop a suitable memorial. The requirement is a contemporary design that...
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