The cross at Petermann IslandPosted on
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 Jones, found the pi…Posted on
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…Posted on
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…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...