Memorial Cross to Eric PlattPosted on
Warren King has written from New Zealand enclosing a photograph of his father Ronald King beside a cross he had made in memory of Eric Platt whilst working as a carpenter in the Falkland Islands. Eric Platt, a geologist based at Admiralty Bay, King G…
Painting raises £935 for the TrustPosted on
The auction of the painting "Never to Return" ss Terra Nova from Cape Evans 22 January 1913 was won by £935 by Ian Craig, a British engineer living in Canada, who has visited the Antarctic as a tourist a number of times and found the expe… Bidding opens for Terra Nova paintingPosted on
An early bid of £750 by email following early promotion was topped by a postal bid of £815 on 2 July for a painting commissioned from polar artist Mike Skidmore by the Trustees of British Antarctic Monument Trust. The oil painting of SS Terra Nova …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...