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Daily Mail joins search for families

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Within a couple of hours of the Daily Mail being published on Saturday 29 January I received an email with the address of the parents of {cms_selflink page='101' text='Ambrose Morgan'} now living in Dorset.  The Trust will be contacting them to invit…
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Maquette of sculpture Carving the monument

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Brian Dorsett-Bailey and I visited workshops in Kent to see work beginning on the oak pillars for the Antarctic Monument by the sculptor Oliver Barratt. Each of two 3 metre pillars consists of five beams of oak which have been cramped and stuck toget…
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Fund raising lectures in Gloucestershire

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Dr Russ Thompson will be giving two talks in March. one at Marling School, Stroud and the other at Sir Thomas Rich's, Gloucester, entitled Antarctica: heroism, discovery, inspiration.  He will be introducting the Antarctic explorers of the heroic age…
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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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