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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 information we had w…
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Fiftieth anniversary of the Antarctic Treaty

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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 Lockroy in 1944. Fo…
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Amabassadors to promote British Antarctic Monument Trust

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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 Antarctic tour ships.…
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Wednesday, January 7th 2026

Meredith Hooper, Antarctic historian and BAMT supporter 1939-2025

Meredith Hooper, Antarctic historian and author, died on 27 December 2025 at her home in London. She was a Visiting Scholar at the Scott Polar Research Institute and Wolfson College, Cambridge University and a trustee of the Brussels-based International Polar Foundation and the UK Antarctic Herita… Full Story...
Thursday, December 4th 2025

Supermoon

The December supermoon called appropriately the Cold Moon rises over Stanley Harbour, Falklands bathing the southern element of the Antarctic Monument in gold and silver light. Simon Lancaster, Head of Supply Chain at British Antarctic Survey was out with a camera at 22:00 to capture this wonderf… Full Story...
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