Tag: Overwintering

Eric Brossier and France Pinczon du Sel - Part I: Tandem in the cold

Camille Lin

Attracted by the beauty of the Arctic and in search of rational explanations of how it works, the two partners immersed themselves in a frozen landscape. Ideal conditions in which to meet modern-day Inuit and share a few ancestral customs.

An Antarctic South-African station on the edge of fear

Mirjana Binggeli

An alleged assault on a South African Antarctic station is currently making headlines. Although the phenomenon is rare, it is not exceptional. Isolation, boredom and confinement in a hostile environment can put the nerves of scientific and station personnel to the test.

Campbell Island overwintering soundtrack

Camille Lin

Two friends set meteorologist Peter Fisher's personal overwintering experience to music with the album Life on Sub-Antarctic Cambell Island - The Weather Station Years.

First strategy for Antarctic French Territories’ historical heritage

Camille Lin

A new strategy at the prefecture of the Southern and Antarctic French Territories (TAAF) continues a promising dynamic for France's polar heritage, which is growing with new objects and documents.

The Southern Games: sport and cohesion between the Southern Ocean and Antarctica

Camille Lin

This year's Southern Games celebrate 7 years of revival, bringing joy and a sense of community to the French scientific stations around Antarctica and on the continent, with the Amsterdam Island Division emerging victorious.

Antarctica - winter is over

Heiner Kubny

The 12-member crew of the French-Italian research station Concordia woke up in early August to a most welcome sight: sunrise after four months of darkness.

Parmjit Singh Sehra - With rockets to India's Antarctic Program

Dr. Michael Wenger

Parmijt Singh Sehra, the first Indian to overwinter in Antarctica and to circumnavigate it, also gave the ignition for the later Indian Antarctic research program.

Borchgrevink - First! (and third)

Christian Hug

Carsten Borchgrevink was not the first person on the Antarctic continent. But the first one to overwinter there.