An engineer working thousands of miles from home in Antarctica has befriended one of the locals – and has named his new ...

Here's our fifth postcard from Rothera, where exciting changes are transforming our largest Antarctic research station this ...

Rothera with the RRS James Clark Ross The next stage of building a scientific support facility in Antarctica has started and to avoid the risk of introducing COVID-19 to the British Antarctic ...

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is hiring carpenters, chefs, electricians and plumbers to take remote work all the way to the seventh continent. A world leader in polar research and operations, ...

On Tuesday 21 June researchers and operational staff at BAS’ King Edward Point, Bird Island and Rothera Research Station took part in a decades old tradition to mark the Antarctic Winter Solstice.

Staff at Rothera Research Station, the UK’s largest research station, are hoping to make time to enjoy a few mince pies and watch some Christmas films. Working in Antarctica can be isolating ...

He has over-wintered at Rothera Research Station and spent a summer at Halley VI Research Station. Oliver said: “Being a chef in Antarctica is a very different experience to anything I’ve ever ...

Current local time in Rothera (Antarctica/Rothera timezone). Get information about the Antarctica/Rothera time zone. Local time and date, DST adjusted (where ever daylight saving time is applicable) ...

Together with the Rothera base on the Antarctic Peninsula, Halley spearheads British activity on the White Continent. The station gathers important weather and climate data, and it played a ...

At Rothera, the UK’s largest research station ... The ship will sail south of the Antarctic Peninsula and drop a team of researchers off at their study site on Christmas Eve, in time to spend ...

The biggest base, Rothera, on the Antarctic Peninsula houses 19 winterers – the population can reach 100 in the Summer. Furthest south still is Halley VI on the Brant ice shelf where the Sun ...

Most of the staff - 25 of the 38 - are at the UK’s largest Antarctic research station, Rothera. But 2000 km further north, the rest will listen in stations at Bird Island and King Edward Point.