Today marked our first full day in Ushuaia and with it, a trip to the West and to Estancia Harberton; a small homestead steeped in history. We took a minibus with driver Eric for about 2 hours East of our hotel through…
We started off our day waking up in the Palermo district of Buenos Aires. Most of us headed to the top floor of the hotel where we had breakfast and chatted about our plans for the day while looking out over the city.…
On Sunday 12 March 8 MSc students, 7 final year (SH) undergraduate students and lecturer Lars set off from Scotland to travel to the End of the World. The trip so far has taken them for a stopover in Paris (well, the…
Expedition warm up On a very cold, blustery day in Dundee (Scotland) a small group of our Antarctica fieldtrip team arrived at the RSS Discovery Centre. Met by our guide Ali, we decided to start with a tour of the…
The 5th University of St Andrews Antarctic expedition will get underway in March 2017! Fifteen excited new expeditioners and two polar seas seasoned staff have been preparing and planning for, reading and dreaming of…
It’s always hard ending an adventure, and Antarctica has surely been an epic one. We’ve lived in a glorious bubble for the past ten days. A bubble without internet or phones, deadlines or assignments, crowds of people…
Today we woke for the last time aboard the M/V Plancius to our favourite wake-up call of “Good morning, Good morning”. We were almost alongside in Ushuaia and were greeted by a gorgeous sunrise and the twinkling lights…
As dawn broke on our final day at sea we were woken by the repeated rolling and tanging of the ocean swell as the ship sped through the Drake’s Passage; attempting to out-run the ever closing storm. The team was…
24th March, the Drake Passage. Weather-worn, exhausted and happy, we braced ourselves (and our stomachs) for our first day back in the Drake Passage. It’s safe to say we were all sad to leave one of the most beautiful…
23rd March, South Shetland Islands. Today marked the final day of our adventure before heading back home via the Drake Passage. We began the day by sailing into the caldera of Deception Island, an active volcano. The…
