The post office of Antarctica

At port Lockroy on Goudier Island on the Antarctic Peninsular

is a Royal Mail post office

Post card time!!!

Photo by Dr Ivanov

Felicity Aston

Felicity Aston is a polar adventurer and climate scientist. 

She is the first person to manually ski 1084 miles across Antarctica, coast to coast via the south pole, and she did it completely alone.

Research Stations- Rothera

Rothera Research Station on Adelaide Island on the Antarctic Peninsular studies marine and terrestrial biology, geology, glaciology, meteorology and upper atmospherics.

It is also the capital of the British Antarctic Territory and the logistics centre for British Antarctic Survey.

Research stations- Halley

The Halley Research Station is a British research base run by the British Antarctic Survey. It mainly researches atmospheric sciences, but also survey, geology and glaciology. It was founded in 1957. 

Youngest person to ski to the South Pole

Lewis Clarke was 16 years old when he skied to the South Pole. The year 11 student from Bristol spent 48 days skiing 702 miles along the Hercules Inlet route.

On the expedition, he only had one day off. Skiing 8 to 9 hours a day, he covered about 18 miles a day, battling against gale force winds and temperatures as low as -40.

After his 7 week expedition, he literally went straight into his GCSE mocks and then into the real exams. (in August he got his results – 7 A*s and 3 As) He actually took his revision with him to Antarctica!

And this wasn't even the first time he had broken a world record (and still holds the record). When he was 12, Lewis and a team of friends became the youngest team to ever swim the Channel in relay.

His blog for his record breaking expedition can be found at https://youngesttosouthpole.wordpress.com

Cycling to the South Pole

On the 27th December 2013, Maria Leijerstam became the first person in the world to cycle from the edge of the Antarctic continent to the South Pole. She also set the new World Record for the fastest human powered coast to pole traverse, completing her journey in 10 days, 14hrs and 56 minutes.

Maria, who is from Wales, cycled every day for 10 to 17 hours without a rest day. She reached 2941m when crossing the Trans-Antarctic Mountain range on the Leverett Glacier.

The Polar Cycle she used was specially designed and is the only one in the world.

To learn more about the White Ice Cycle expedition, visit http://www.whiteicecycle.com.