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UK Training
Met training in Cambourne
Climbing masts in Taunton
Abseiling in Derbyshire
First aid in Derriford
Fire training
The Voyage South
Crossing to America
Montevideo
The Falklands
Sub- Antarctic Islands
The Brunt Iceshelf
Halley Research Station
Living on an ice shelf
Summer
Winter
Recording the weather
Holidays
Halley Research Station |
Finally along came Halley V which is on steel legs like stilts. Each year the legs are extended and the whole building is jacked up. Halley V has a 20 year "shelf life" limited only by the fact that the Brunt Ice Shelf is floating out to sea and breaking up.
The boundary of the base is a line of empty 45 gallon drums which encircles all the buildings. Inside the drum-line are the main platform, the two science platforms, the garage and summer accomodation building (which are large buildings on skiis), the cabooses, cargo dumps, fuel dumps and waste dumps.
Between the major buildings are hand-lines, so that you can follow them in bad weather.
Main platform at sunset
Snow, snow, glorious snow...
There is a story that the Inuit of the Arctic have 100 different words
for snow.. well the Met Office come close. Here are some of the many different
forms of snow and ice...
Light snow, medium snow, heavy snow, hail, snow pellets, ice pellets,
snow grains, diamond dust, ice fog, drifting snow, blowing snow, hoar
frost, rime, ice bergs, bergy bits, growlers, ice floes, pack ice.. etc
Each one has its own code and symbol which gets written in the meteorological register.
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