In the early 1990s, a walking tour by the Campbell Island station meteorologist. Image: DR / Peter Fisher Two friends set meteorologist Peter Fisher’s personal wintering experience to music with the album Life on Sub-Antarctic Campbell Island – The Weather...
A new strategy at the prefecture of the Southern and Antarctic French Territories (TAAF) continues a promising dynamic for France’s polar heritage, which is growing with new objects and documents. The exhibition “Voyage en terres australes Crozet et...
Planking test for Enzo, Mélaine and Alexis at Dumont d’Urville in Terre Adélie. Image: Laurent Le Guiniec / TAAF Image : Laurent Le Guiniec / TAAF This year’s Southern Games celebrate 7 years of revival, bringing joy and a sense of community to the French...
After four months of darkness, the sun announces itself days before the first rise with spectacular colors on the horizon. (Photo: Hannes Hagson) The 12-member crew of the French-Italian research station Concordia woke up in early August to a most welcome sight:...
Carsten Egeberg Borchgrevink was born on December 1, 1864 in Christiania, today’s Oslo. At the end of the 19th century, he devoted himself intensively to Antarctic research and in 1895 he was one of the first people to enter the Antarctic mainland. Borchgrevink...
