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BAT Government retweeted
Happy Polar Pride from everyone at the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust! 🏳️🌈🇦🇶
Wildlife Monitor Alette raises the rainbow flag at Port Lockroy, celebrating diversity, inclusion and love in every corner of our planet, including Antarctica. 🌈🐧
#PolarPride #PortLockroy #Antarctica
BAT Government retweeted
Here in the UK, we may be in the grip of a heatwave, but for those at the other end of the Earth, 21 June is Midwinter Day – the shortest & darkest day of the year. In 1944, the nine men at Port Lockroy spent their day very differently from us!
🔗 Read: ukaht.org/latest-news/2025/m…
BAT Government retweeted
Happy World Penguin Day! 🐧
To celebrate, we have a short penguin quiz for you. Keep count of your results and let us know how many you got right. Marks out of 10.
✅ Take the quiz: ukaht.my.canva.site/gentoo-p…
BAT Government retweeted
Happy World Penguin Day! 🐧
In her final update of the season, wildlife monitor Maggie Coll bids a fond farewell to the colony and picks out a few of her favourite feathered friends.
#WorldPenguinDay
🔗 Read Maggie's blog: ukaht.org/latest-news/2025/p…
BAT Government retweeted
#OTD in 1900, Borchgrevink's British Antarctic 'Southern Cross' Expedition party arrived in New Zealand after being in Antarctica for two years.
They were the first team to winter over, and use dogs, sledges and skis to travel over land and sea ice. Expedition members Bernacchi and Colbeck produced a detailed map of the area that was used by later expeditions. Finally, under Bernacchi’s leadership, the first full year of weather readings was recorded. Their data set the baseline for Antarctic climate science.
They were also the first to erect a building in Antarctica - at Cape Adare, now cared for by Antarctic Heritage Trust on behalf of the international community.
ALT 📸 The Southern Cross expedition members pictured just before spending the first winter on the Antarctic continent, 1899. Canterbury Museum
BAT Government retweeted
Join us for our next webinar!
In this exclusive webinar for International Women’s Day, we bring together the titans of British leadership in the polar regions.
🗓️ Thu 6 Mar 2025
⏱️ 18:00 - 19:00 GMT
💰 Free!
🎟️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/trailblaz…
BAT Government retweeted
Historic building at Whalers Bay successfully restored after graffiti incident
The UK Antarctic Heritage Trust has worked with partners to remove graffiti from the historic aircraft hangar at Whalers Bay on Deception Island.
🔗 Read more: ukaht.org/latest-news/2025/h…
BAT Government retweeted
Happy Polar Pride! 🌈
Today we're celebrating the contribution of LGBTQ+ people in polar research and operations! This is the fourth Polar Pride, following the designation of the celebration by @GovBAT and @GovSGSSI in 2020.
#PolarPride2024 #LGBTSTEMDay #DiversityinPolarScience
BAT Government retweeted
It’s Polar Pride Day! 🏳️🌈❄️
Today, we celebrate the contributions of the LGBTQIA+ community to polar science. Polar Pride represents a commitment to support and enhance diversity and inclusion in polar research.
#PolarPride #DiversityInScience #DiversityInPolarScience
BAT Government retweeted
Polar Pride Day at Scott Base 🏳️🌈
Today marked the fifth Polar Pride Day, which celebrates our LGBTQ+ community who contribute to polar science in Antarctica and the Arctic. We celebrated with a beautiful cake as the flag flew proudly.
#polarpride @PridePolar
BAT Government retweeted
Say hello to Aoife McKenna, our new museum manager at Port Lockroy. Here, she speaks to BBC Midlands about her new job working at the Penguin Post Office in Antarctica.
#ukaht #ukantarcticheritagetrust #portlockroy #antarctica
BAT Government retweeted
Please join us on Tuesday 3 December 2024 for Dogs in Antarctica, the second in our season of online talks: Antarctica In Sight: Live!
🎟️ Reserve your free ticket below
eventbrite.co.uk/e/dogs-in-a…
BAT Government retweeted
🤔 What does the lifecycle of a mega iceberg look like?
🔎 What do scientists understand from them?
📝 How do they get their names?
Dive in to this article from BBC Future, with BAS scientists Geraint Tarling, Roseanne Smith and Peter Fretwell👇
ow.ly/tZbw50TVcsS
BAT Government retweeted
As a new Antarctic season begins, so does a new season of the Iceworld podcast! ❄️
To kick off season 4, BAS pilots Vicky Auld and Olly Smith share their experiences✈️
🎧 Available now on all major podcast platforms and Youtube. Happy listening!
📸Michael Shortt
BAT Government retweeted
🚨New season alert! 🚨
The new Antarctic season is officially underway - take a look at some of the amazing projects happening this year:
👉 bas.ac.uk/media-post/a-new-a…
📸 Adam Bradley, Jamie Anderson, Pete Bucktrout
BAT Government retweeted
During the upcoming summer conservation season the Trust will have teams working in three areas of Antarctica: at Cape Adare, on Ross Island, and on the Antarctic Peninsula.
To learn more, read the article from our latest newsletter: nzaht.org/2024-25-conservati…
📷 ©AHT/Zack Bennett.
ALT 📷 Scott’s ‘Terra Nova’ hut at Cape Evans. 2023-24. © AHT/Zack Bennett.
BAT Government retweeted
UK team picked for world’s most remote job to spend five months in near constant daylight
independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho…
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#Shackleton’s Endurance in all her glory - bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd6q…
BAT Government retweeted
Happy World Post Day! 📮
We're marking the 150th anniversary of the establishment of the Universal Postal Union in 1874 in the Swiss capital, Bern, by taking a look at the world’s most improbable post offices.
🔗 Read the article: ukaht.org/latest-news/2024/p…
