Antarctica, January 2025. Expert teams are making their way across the stark frozen landscape, by sea, land and air - and they are planning to meet.
The English Coast of Antarctica is 600km from the nearest research station – a remote frontier, where the ice cliffs of the Stange Ice Shelf mark the edge of a giant floating, frozen wilderness. It is here that the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) completed an epic logistics operation, literally in the middle of nowhere.
This short film shows the RRS Sir David Attenborough docking along the English Coast to recover and deliver scientific cargo to West Antarctica. Get a glimpse of how British Antarctic Survey teams create ice ports and establish supply routes across one of Earth's most remote environments.
Oliver Darke (Director of Polar Operations), Captain Will Whatley, Andrew Fleming (Head of Mapping), and Traverse driver Luke Murphy explain the challenges of Antarctic operations - from navigating 9,000 miles through the infamous Drake Passage to creating ports on ice cliffs and running mobile "lorry lines" across the continent.
See how satellite imagery, drones, ground-penetrating radar and specialised vehicles support this remarkable British capability that enables scientists to study how Antarctica is changing and what that means for our planet.
