Tag Archives: antarctica

Ice is Nice

Posted on July 13, 2012 by arrancat

Limbo Schmimbo Well, I’m still in limbo at the moment, the last item that I ordered was the one that arrived with me first, but thanks to USA2Georgia that it arrived so promptly and effeciently, so I’m guessing that when … Continue reading →

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Last Letters: To Vice-Admiral Sir Francis Charles Bridgeman

Posted on April 29, 2012 by arrancat

Reblogged from ISCE journals: TO VICE-ADMIRAL SIR FRANCIS CHARLES BRIDGEMAN, K.C.V.O., K.C.B. MY DEAR SIR FRANCIS, I fear we have shipped up; a close shave; I am writing a few letters which I hope will be delivered some day. I … Continue reading →

Posted in Britishness, Death and Dying, Explorers, Friendship, Nature and Wildlife, and Seasons, Royal Geographical Society, Teaching and Geography, Uncategorized | Tagged across, adventure, antarctica, bridgeman, brit, british, camping, centenary, charles, chill, cold, death, degrees, diary, exploration, extreme, fourty, francis, ice, journey, last, letters, minus, pole, scott, shackleton, sir, snow, south, tent, trekking, walking, weather, wind | Leave a comment

Have you Ever Been to Georgia?

Posted on April 22, 2012 by arrancat

Have you ever been to Georgia? was the number one question on every Oceans Ambassador’s mind yesterday, as we called up the European Space Agency’s Dr Alexander Kumar at Concordia Research Station in Antarctica, one of the remotest places on … Continue reading →

Posted in Autobiographical Things, Being a Medic, Britishness, Environment, Explorers, Friendship, Georgian Life, Health and Fitness, My PhD: Environmental Psychology, Nature and Wildlife, and Seasons, Oceans Project, Photos, Plastic Pollution, Royal Geographical Society, Teaching and Geography, Uncategorized | Tagged agency, alexander, antarctica, astronaut, award, base, below, boat, chat, child, children, cold, concordia, customs, dark, doctor, dofe, duke of edinburgh, esa, european, food, freezing, furs, georgia, georgian, hat, helicopter, ice, international, international space station, journey, khajapuri, khinkali, kids, kilometre, kumar, light, live, mars, medic, medicine, middle, minus, mission, nature, nowhere, oceans, opg, outdoor, outdoors, penguins, people, physiology, pole, posion, project, remote, rescue, selection, ship, sickness, skype, sleep, snake bite, snakes, south, space, stars, station, students, study, swimming, teenagers, traditions, travel, vacation, vomit comet, weather, wilderness, young | Leave a comment

Last Letters: To Sir J M Barrie

Posted on April 15, 2012 by arrancat

Reblogged from ISCE journals: TO SIR J. M. BARRIE MY DEAR BARRIE, We are pegging out in a very comfortless spot. Hoping this letter may be found and sent to you, I write a word of farewell. … More practically … Continue reading →