International Antarctic Day Godley Head
Join us at Godley Head to celebrate International Antarctic Day, recognising the Antarctic Treaty, and visit a little known Canterbury Antarctic connection.
Join us at Godley Head to celebrate International Antarctic Day, recognising the Antarctic Treaty, and visit a little known Canterbury Antarctic connection.
Nancy Bertler will present on the new MBIE-funded initiative, the Antarctic Science Platform, which is designed to help understand Antarctica’s impact on the global earth system, and how this might change in a future world.
This talk will be live streamed for all those who cannot make it in person!
What is it like to spend one year at the South Pole? No aircraft for nine months, no Sun for six!
Hear Dr Ursula Rack, Polar Historian, and Adjunct Fellow of Gateway Antarctica, present on Frozen History.
Godley Head’s Antarctic Hut and Penguins
with Guides Dr. Bryan Storey and Suky Thompson and penguin researcher Dr. Chris Challies assisted by members of the White-Flippered Penguin Trust.
Please join us for the 32nd annual Sir Holmes Miller Memorial Lecture by Peter Otway. Peter Otway will talk about surveying in Antarctica in the 1960s, and using dogs and sleds for transport.
The lecture commemorates Sir Holmes’ pioneering surveys by dog sled for Hillary’s route to the Pole.
If you are in Auckland on November 14, please join us and the Auckland Antarctic Science MeetUp Group for a presentation by Craig on the influence of the oceans on Antarctic ice.
Visit Quail Island, Lyttleton Harbour’s treasure with Ian McLennan and other members from the Quail Island Ecological Trust.
Explore our Antarctic Port with Antarctic Society members.
Sunday October 14, 2018 – 1.00pm
Auckland Branch
Wellington Branch
Canterbury Branch
