The Sledge Dogs of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, 1945–46

In early 1945, having had no previous experience of dogs or dog-driving, I was given charge of twenty-five huskies at the Hope Bay base of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey. These dogs were purchased in Labrador by Surg.-Cdr. E. W. Bingham, R.N., and Capt. N. B. Marshall in the autumn of 1944, and were transported to the Antarctic via England. Every man develops his own methods and personal preferences for animal management, and there is a welter of conflicting advice and testimony. In such circumstances it is best for the absolute novice to select the system of one acknowledged expert and adhere to it rigidly.

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Conservation in the Antarctic

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B Biological Sciences ◽

10.1098/rstb.1977.0074 ◽

1977 ◽

Vol 279 (963) ◽

pp. 97-104 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Keyword(s):

Southern Ocean ◽

Control Measures ◽

Falkland Islands ◽

Voluntary Agreement ◽

South Georgia ◽

Tristan Da Cunha ◽

Conservation Measures ◽

Antarctic Seals ◽

Antarctic Treaty ◽

The Antarctic

Formidable legal and administrative complexities arise from conflicting claims to jurisdiction and the continued absence of generally recognized sovereignty over much of the region. Existing conservation measures fall into three groups: elaborate laws made by governments claiming Antarctic territories, more restricted laws, and simple instructions for particular expeditions. The Antarctic Treaty, 1959, made it possible to begin coordinating all these separate instruments. No claimed jurisdiction has been surrendered or recognized: each government has started to harmonize its own control measures with the ‘Agreed Measures for the Conservation of Antarctic Fauna and Flora’, 1964. This scheme applied only to land areas and has since been evolving in the light of experience. Although not yet formally approved by all the governments concerned, it is working effectively by voluntary agreement. Different approaches are necessary for conservation of Southern Ocean resources, especially krill. A start has been made with the ‘ Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Seals’, 1972. There are many outstanding problems: all require effective cooperation between scientific and legal advisers, diplomats and politicians. Mention is made of recent British conservation legislation for South Georgia, the Falkland Islands and the Tristan da Cunha group. Some of the next steps are outlined.

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Glaciological Observations in Trinity Peninsula, Graham Land, Antarctica

Journal of Glaciology ◽

10.1017/s0022143000017470 ◽

1961 ◽

Vol 3 (30) ◽

pp. 1063-1074 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

R. M. Koerner

Keyword(s):

Ice Formation ◽

Falkland Islands ◽

The West ◽

Central Plateau ◽

Plateau Area ◽

Island Group ◽

History Of ◽

James Ross Island ◽

Scientific Report ◽

Hope Bay

Abstract This paper is a summary of the more important results of glaciological investigations carried out in Trinity Peninsula, Graham Land during 1958–60, and which will be published at length in Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey Scientific Report No. 42. The budgets for Depot Glacier and the ice piedmont between Hope Bay and Trepassey Bay are given and it is concluded that in a normal year they are in a state of near equilibrium. The state of the glaciers of southern Trinity Peninsula is discussed in a consideration of the importance of rime ice formation on the west coast of the peninsula. Movement and accumulation studies in Trinity Peninsula and the islands of the James Ross Island group demonstrate a decrease in glacierization south-eastwards from the central plateau area. The recent glacial history of the area is also briefly reviewed.

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Una Peaks: a long overdue Antarctic geographical naming

Polar Record ◽

10.1017/s0032247408008036 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 45 (2) ◽

pp. 177-179

Author(s):

John Splettstoesser

Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

Antarctic Peninsula ◽

Falkland Islands ◽

Place Names ◽

New Name ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

The Antarctic ◽

Geographical Feature

ABSTRACTA new name for a geographical feature in the Antarctic Peninsula known for many years by its colloquial name of Una's Tits, was formally approved by the Antarctic place names committee of the United Kingdom. It is now known as Una Peaks, named for a former secretary in the governor's office, Stanley, Falkland Islands.

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Fire Precautions at Antarctic Stations

Polar Record ◽

10.1017/s0032247400048142 ◽

1953 ◽

Vol 6 (46) ◽

pp. 743-745

Author(s):

Bernard Stonehouse

Keyword(s):

South Shetland Islands ◽

Falkland Islands ◽

Deception Island ◽

The South ◽

Shetland Islands ◽

Antarctic Expedition ◽

Terre Adélie ◽

Hope Bay

In 1946 the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey station on Deception Island in the South Shetland Islands was completely destroyed by fire. Stores, valuable equipment and the records of many months' work were lost. In 1948 the station at Hope Bay in Trinity Peninsula was burnt down, with the loss of two lives. In January 1952 the hut of the French Antarctic Expedition at Port-Martin in Terre Adélie was destroyed in the same way. Smaller outbreaks of fire, fortunately detected early and dealt with promptly, have been reported from other stations. Of all the difficulties which can overtake a polar expedition, the loss of its base is perhaps the most disastrous. Nevertheless, the frequency with which such losses seem to occur suggests that there are fundamental errors in the design of the huts, as well as a tendency to underestimate the danger of fire.

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XXX.—Actiniaria and Zoantharia of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1902–1904

Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh ◽

10.1017/s0080456800017440 ◽

1939 ◽

Vol 59 (3) ◽

pp. 791-800 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Oskar Carlgren

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

West Coast ◽

Cape Verde ◽

Falkland Islands ◽

Full Information ◽

The West ◽

Gough Island ◽

Antarctic Expedition ◽

The Antarctic ◽

A New Species

The collection of Actiniaria and Zoantharia made by the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition contains nineteen species, one of which, Porponia antarctica Carlgren, I described as a new species in 1914. In all there were six species from the Antarctic, three from the Falkland Islands, six from the west coast of Cape Province, three from the Cape Verde Islands, and one, not specifically determined, from Gough Island. The new species here described are Epiactis vincentina, Epiactis brucei, Sicyonis antarctica, and Palythoa vincentina. I have not thought it necessary to compile a complete list of the literature and synonyms of the species, since in the papers cited full information is given.

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Observations of an Inertial Peak in the Intrinsic Wind Spectrum Shifted by Rotation in the Antarctic Vortex

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences ◽

10.1175/jas-d-11-0305.1 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 69 (12) ◽

pp. 3800-3811 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

L. J. Gelinas ◽

R. L. Walterscheid ◽

C. R. Mechoso ◽

G. Schubert

Keyword(s):

Solid Body ◽

Wave Spectrum ◽

Polar Vortex ◽

Relative Vorticity ◽

Body Rotation ◽

Background Flow ◽

Absolute Vorticity ◽

Solid Body Rotation ◽

The Absolute ◽

The Antarctic

Abstract Spectral analyses of time series of zonal winds derived from locations of balloons drifting in the Southern Hemisphere polar vortex during the Vorcore campaign of the Stratéole program reveal a peak with a frequency near 0.10 h−1, more than 25% higher than the inertial frequency at locations along the trajectories. Using balloon data and values of relative vorticity evaluated from the Modern Era Retrospective-Analyses for Research and Applications (MERRA), the authors find that the spectral peak near 0.10 h−1 can be interpreted as being due to inertial waves propagating inside the Antarctic polar vortex. In support of this claim, the authors examine the way in which the low-frequency part of the gravity wave spectrum sampled by the balloons is shifted because of effects of the background flow vorticity. Locally, the background flow can be expressed as the sum of solid-body rotation and shear. This study demonstrates that while pure solid-body rotation gives an effective inertial frequency equal to the absolute vorticity, the latter gives an effective inertial frequency that varies, depending on the direction of wave propagation, between limits defined by the absolute vorticity plus or minus half of the background relative vorticity.

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A new species of Acarospora (Acarosporaceae, Acarosporales, lichenized Ascomycota) from the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)

Phytotaxa ◽

10.11646/phytotaxa.340.1.7 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 340 (1) ◽

pp. 86 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

DAG O. ØVSTEDAL ◽

LOUISE LINDBLOM ◽

KERRY KNUDSEN ◽

ALAN M. FRYDAY

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Molecular Data ◽

Falkland Islands ◽

Antarctic Species ◽

Islas Malvinas ◽

The Antarctic ◽

A New Species

Acarospora malouina Øvstedal & K. Knudsen is described from the Falkland Islands. It is morphologically very similar to the Antarctic species A. gwynnii but differs in chemistry, ecology and evidence from molecular data.

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XX. Contributions to terrestrial magnetism.-no. x

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London ◽

10.1098/rstl.1866.0020 ◽

1866 ◽

Vol 156 ◽

pp. 453-543

Keyword(s):

Southern Ocean ◽

Falkland Islands ◽

Magnetic Survey ◽

Present Communication ◽

Terrestrial Magnetism ◽

Cape Of Good Hope ◽

General Plan ◽

Detailed Exposition ◽

Magnetic Elements ◽

The Antarctic

Resume in this Number of the Contributions the discussion and coordination of the observations of the Antarctic Magnetic Survey executed by Her Majesty’s Ships ‘Erebus’ and ‘Terror,’ under the direction of Sir James Clark Ross, R. N., aided by Captain Francis Rawdon Crozier, R. N., between the years 1839 and 1843. I purpose in the present communication to complete the detailed exposition of the Survey by the reduction of the observations of the three magnetic elements in its concluding year, on the same general plan on which similar accounts were given of those of the preceding years in earlier communications, viz., between the Cape of Good Hope and Hobarton in 1840, and between the departure from Hobarton in November 1840, and the return to the same station in April 1841, in No. V. (Philosophical Transactions, 1843, Art. X ) ; and between Hobarton in July 1841 and the Falkland Islands in April 1842 in No. VI. (Philosophical Transactions, 1844, Art. VII.). The observations discussed in the present memoir are those made from the departure from the Falkland Islands in September 1842 to the second arrival at the Cape of Good Hope in April 1843. In a subsequent and concluding memoir, which I hope to present to the Society early in the ensuing session, it will be my endeavour to connect and thoroughly coordinate the several portions of the Survey, comprising in its three portions the circumnavigation of the Southern Ocean from the departure from the Cape of Good Hope in March 1840, to the return of the ships to the same station in April 1843.

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A new estimate of the adopted gravity value at Rothera Station, Antarctic Peninsula

Antarctic Science ◽

10.1017/s0954102099000590 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 11 (4) ◽

pp. 461-462 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Philip C. Jones ◽

Julie K. Ferris

Keyword(s):

South America ◽

Antarctic Peninsula ◽

Base Station ◽

Falkland Islands ◽

Gravity Station ◽

Gravity Network ◽

Scientific Station ◽

The Uk ◽

The Antarctic ◽

Gravity System

Because of the lack of a definitive air link to an international gravity base station, the Antarctic Peninsula gravity network was originally, and still is, tied to the Potsdam gravity system via long ship links to South America (Renner 1981, Kennett 1965). An indirect link from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) scientific station at Rothera to an International Gravity Standardisation Net 1971 (IGSN 71) base station in the UK had previously been made via a link to the BAS gravity station on the Falkland Islands in Port Stanley (McGibbon 1988). Whilst the apparent gravity difference between Port Stanley and the base station in the UK had been calculated via a two-way air tie using a LaCoste and Romberg meter (McGibbon 1988) and later strengthened with three two-way air ties using four LaCoste and Romberg meters (Bassett 1987), the link between Port Stanley and Rothera was based on a one-way tie that included a lengthy ship borne passage (McGibbon 1988). The weakness of this link insured that the adopted gravity value at Rothera continued to be based on the ship ties made by Griffiths et al. (1964) and Kennett (1965). This note describes the strengthening of the gravity link between Rothera and Port Stanley and the subsequent reassignment of the adopted gravity value at Rothera Station.

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