Antarctic Blogs?

[Dracling]

I've been reading this antarctic blog for the past year, but the guy finally went home. :sad: I loved reading his posts, they were so informative and the photos ... :shock:

Does anyone know of any other good, active blogs by people in antarctica?

[Paul]

This one is from a guy at the UK Halley base.

these two blogs are great. here is another informative one.

http://www.70south.com/news

[Dracling]

Those look good!

If any of this year's winterover people start blogs, please post links, It'll be nice to watch for an entire year.

[Dracling]

I found another good one:

http://tblogs.bootsnall.com/luke/

[Dracling]

Originally Posted by Paul

This one is from a guy at the UK Halley base.

I just read through that one, the guy is going to be there for 2 and a half years! I don't think I could handle that, but it must be a great experience.

[Paul Ward]

Hi Dracling - actually, he has just been there for two and a half years, he's due to leave in February 2006 I think, so unfortunately it's not a "live" blog for much longer. There's lots of great stuff in it though.

This one:

http://www.polarwandering.co.uk/

is currently live (as of date of this post) it's by Layla Curtis who has been awarded the 2006 Artists and Writers Fellowship Award, a joint partnership between the British Antarctic Survey and Arts Council England's International Artists Fellowships Programme. It's not a blog as such and is "arty" rather than anything else. I think I prefer real-life blogs to artistic impressions though.

[Dracling]

I agree with you about that blog, that site took a long time to load on my T1-equivalent connection and it wasn't worth it. Are there even any text entries on that site?

Give me a down-to-earth blog any day, here are two nice ones I found:

http://www.markgwilson.com/brrr/

http://tblogs.bootsnall.com/luke/ <- from a field, camp, the first blog I've found.

[Pirates Armada]

Originally Posted by Paul

This one is from a guy at the UK Halley base.

there is a cool pirate pic on this site!! they should raise the skull and cross bones flag.

The current Halley crowd, that I could find, are:

http://bigjuli.blogspot.com/
http://chillydave.blogspot.com/
http://www.antarcticlife.com/
http://76south.blogspot.com/
http://the.earth.li/~alex/halley/