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During December 2007, 11 young explorers taking part in an expedition to the Antarctic region wrote about their experiences on a physics.org blog.

The expedition was led by the British Schools’ Exploring Society. The 11 young explorers spent six weeks in the Falkland Islands and South Georgia, a remote island in the South Atlantic, where they carried out scientific work, including bird population surveys and mapping of glaciers, as well as a search for the stove discarded by famous explorer Ernest Shackleton when he traversed the island in 1916.

Alison McLure, one of the expedition leaders and the Institute of Physics’ National Officer for Scotland, said,

“I was a meteorologist for ten years and spent a few months working in the Antarctic as the weather girl for a British Antarctic Research Station so I’m really looking forward to getting my teeth into some meteorology again. I love having my head in the clouds, although the biologists will, no doubt, bring me back down to earth!”

The expedition was part of International Polar Year, a large scientific programme focused on the Arctic and the Antarctic from March 2007 to March 2009.

The Antarctica blog is now finished, but you can view the posts at http://www.physics.org/antarctica

 

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