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The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is the United Kingdom's national polar research institute. It has a dual purpose, to conduct polar science, enabling better understanding of global issues , and to provide an active presence in the Antarctic on behalf of the UK.
Halley Research Station is a research facility in Antarctica on the Brunt Ice Shelf operated by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). The base was established in 1956 to study the Earth's atmosphere . Measurements from Halley led to the discovery of the ozone hole in 1985. [ 3 ]
Cape Reclus Refuge) is a British refuge, managed by the British Antarctic Survey, located at Portal Point on the Reclus PeninsulaThe hut was inaugurated on 13 December 1956 and remained active until April 25, 1958.
Signy was first occupied in 1947 when a three-man meteorological station was established in Factory Cove above the old whaling station. [3] [2] It was the second research base on the South Orkney Islands (after the Argentine Orcadas Base in 1903).
The start of travel appears to be triggered by decreasing day lengths; emperor penguins in captivity have been induced successfully into breeding by using artificial lighting systems mimicking seasonal Antarctic day lengths. [72] The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) used satellite imagery to find new Emperor penguin breeding sites in Antarctica ...
In January 2017, it was announced that the Rothera Research Station will receive £100m in funding from the government. The money is being used by the British Antarctic Survey to build new living quarters, storage and a new wharf. Tim Stockings, its director of operations called the investment “an exciting moment for polar science”.
Webcam images of the station and a penguin colony on nearby Torgersen Island are available at the station's web site. [2] The facility is the second Palmer Station; "Old Palmer" was about a mile to the northwest adjacent to the site of the British Antarctic Survey "Base N", [3] built in the mid-fifties.
The British National Antarctic Expedition (1901–04) under Robert Falcon Scott built its Discovery Hut on Hut Point, at the southern headland of the peninsula. Members of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13 (BAE), under Scott, wintering on Cape Evans and often using the hut during their journeys, came to refer to the whole peninsula as the Hut Point Peninsula.