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BBC science producer Martin Redfern is spending a month spanish dating sites in the Antarctic reporting on world Polar Year. You can follow his exploits on these pages.

25 FEBRUARY THE BIG LIFT marriage ceremony long light evenings south of the Antarctic Circle, seems strange to see the nights drawing in, since “dye ship” Command come as early as 9pm.

By start, The rocking motion of the ship has subsided; people are in the calm, Misty turbulent waters of Port Lockroy again. Is it genuinely three weeks since we were last here?

this indicates as if nothing has changed. Cloud still hangs over the lake, Penguins cavort the actual sea, And an old Russian ship is anchored nearby.

No doubt the penguin colony stills smells the same identical.

But resolution soon on our way. We will need to wait right round the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, To James Ross destination, A huge ancient volcano that is the principal place to go for this entire voyage.

Two months ago, In difficult climatic conditions, The helicopters from HMS Endurance landed a team of scientists and drill technicians there with 20 tonnes of equipment.

Over the next few days it is our job to collect them again if the elements allows.

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to our relief, The next morning sees sunshine buffering in through my porthole, And the sea is calm.

It’s those a busy day, As the forecast says the fine weather just isn’t hold.

Both helis have been fitted with winches to take big loads slung underneath. they start ferrying Royal Marines up the mountain to help the scientists pack up; We are close in it.

Mount Haddington is a multitude of, Ice covered mass the lot more than 5,000 feet (1,500 metres) expensive; The closest thing i have seen to the wide, White wastelands of focused Antarctica.

Vicious winds can race around the heights, Biting while using last layer of thermal underwear, And working on the icy ground into sastrugi, Ridges of snow that are only centimetres high but which seem perfect icy types of the canyons and badlands of the Wild West.

Rob Mulvaney and his colleagues have been living up here for the past two months in pyramid tents not like those used by Captain Scott a century before.

But they have brought luxury with each other as well, With generators, Hot shower properly as a fresh bread making machine in a larger social tent.

Their root cause of being here has been to drill into the ice.

After a slow start due to bad elements, The project has gone surprisingly smoothly and they reached the base of the ice, on average 360 metres beneath us, Two weeks ahead of arrange.

since that time, Twin Otter planes from Rothera currently landing on the ice and ferrying the ice cores out, whitening the load that we must carry to HMS Endurance.

When analysed last Cambridge, The make up of the ice and the air bubbles trapped within it should reveal how the climate here has changed over more than 30,000 changing times.

That’s of special advantage today because, Unlike the centre of the region, The Antarctic Peninsula is increased temperatures fast, Perhaps 3C in the last 50 years.

you think that, Has anything along these lines happened before? Is this part of a natural cycle beautiful lady in spanish or is it an early sign of warming caused by human activity?

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the immediate issue however is to remove all the equipment, Tents and people safely back to HMS Endurance before the elements changes.

thus,terribly, After conducting job interviews and taking photos, We help out to help pack up.

I end up helping to dig out the bathroom,the bathroom tent!

The edges have been weighted down with snow to wait patiently the wind, possesses now mostly turned to ice which must be removed with spades and hammers before we can pack up the tent.

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