From the Collection: RRS Shackleton plaque Current ship wardroom plaques, otherwise known as ship’s plaques or ship’s emblems, or formally as ship’s badges came from an old tradition that reaches back to the age of sail. As a means of identification, sailing ships used carved figureheads as a distinguishing feature; however, with the move from […]
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RRS John Biscoe, Signy Base & King Edward Cove 1960s
Below is a gallery of images from the Signy Base in the South Orkney Islands as well as aspects of RRS John Biscoe in King Edward Cove. There is also an image of the Grave of Ernest Shackleton at Grytiviken, South Georgia. The hull of the ship being grey dates the photographs to the late-1950s […]
British Antarctic Survey
For my son’s completion of his first week of Second Grade, I gave him a small gift: a legal tender coin from the British Antarctic Territory (BAT). He asked me where this place was, and we searched for it in his world atlas and flag gazetteer. Since the international community does not recognize BAT, his […]