Antarctica is commonly referred to as The White Continent - aptly so, of course.  But, this is also a place of many colours - brown, black, ...

When Steve, Cecil and Shawn entered the water at around 2.00PM this afternoon, they swam into this -   Photograph - Steve Clabuesc h To ...

Video by Henry Kaiser

For some reason, the Science, Art & ArtScience ditty I wrote and posted yesterday, jumped backwards and ended up a couple of entries be...

The weather is forecast to do an about-turn tomorrow; we've been told to expect Condition One by late-afternoon, with zero visibility in...

It's high time I outlined our group's research objectives for this season. Chances are this will ask for more than one installment. ...

This post is for my nieces and nephews in South Africa and the UK -  Mikey, Tess, Phil, Tor-tor and Jonathan -  and for all you young at hea...

(For some reason, the short video "Cecil swims by' has evaporated into thin air - if you'd like to watch it, it should be poste...

    for Antarctica and her rebel wind  She never sleeps deep, REM sleep. No. She tosses and turns, cannot lie still with bones and blood at ...

Dictionary definitions of wind don't really cut it. Here are two:  1. ( Merriam-Webster ) 'A natural movement of air of any velocity...

The past few days have been spent largely away from camp, with skidoo trips South from Explorers Cove, across uninterrupted miles of sea...

Much ground has been crossed - literally and metaphorically - in the four days since I last wrote, so it's going to take me a good few d...

I should be fast asleep (it's 1.47AM) but instead I'm tucked up in my sleeping bag, listening through headphones to various sound re...

(This pic will - I hope - be replaced by a video clip & spoken story later; there are too many users online at the moment for our limite...