THE new, ultra-modern Halley VI research station in Antarctica has just become fully operational, signalling what the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) describes as "a new dawn" for polar research.
THE new, ultra-modern Halley VI research station in Antarctica has just become fully operational, signalling what the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) describes as \"a new dawn\" for polar research.
Construction of the Halley VI station has been documented by Kirk Watson, a Scottish mountaineering cameraman
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Building the station was no ordinary construction job. It took place in a region so inhospitable that the nearest habitable area was thousands of miles away – in Cape Town, South Africa.
There were four "build seasons" over four years, each lasting just nine weeks. During the construction temperatures often dropped to at least -30C. Blizzards complicated matters further still.
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