Simple Travel

Blog-style diary from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) team member. Images, information and personal thoughts about living and working in Antarctica. Timely and topical.

Roderick Eime journeys by icebreaker to the Antarctic Peninsula

Life in the Arctic. Shown with pictures and links to discussion.

A UK arts project involving a documentary artist aboard a Hull-based fishing trawler. Extensive!

A brutally frank introduction to working in the Antarctic.

A CBC News: Sunday videogapher, Ian Hannah, travels to the Magnetic North Pole with the Canadian Rangers.

Roderick Eime's snapshot of this amazing volcanic island at the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula.

Exhaustive and detailed account of a two week cruise to the Antarctic Peninsula.

A description of my year as a Network Administrator at the South Pole research station.

Travelogue of a three week vacation in the west of Greenland and Discobay

Jan again. This time to Iceland in the winter.

Three Malaysians attempt a record-breaking journey across the Antarctic continent beginning in October 2003.

North Pole expedition, 2002. Polar explorer Dave Mill in world record bid to complete solo walk from Canada to the North Pole.

A failed attempt to dog sled and ski to the North Pole. Includes preparation, group tensions, the stress of Arctic travel and evacuation.

Travel about 2000 kilometres east from Tierra del Fuego, at the very tip of South America, and you might stumble on its precipitous and windswept shores.

A collection of photographs and anecdotes from Bill Tilmans pilot cutter voyages

Official site for the White Desert expedition to the South Pole. Including daily updates, gallery and Antarctic history.