Antarctic Survey Breaks Through Ice

Endurance's first task on arrival in the South Atlantic is focusing on the South Shetland Islands and the difficult to reach James Ross Island in Erebus and Terror Gulf (Weddell Sea). This involves the ship operating in dense areas of ice, in some of the most extreme weather conditions on Earth.

Onboard Endurance are five scientific teams from the British Antarctic Survey who are working on independent projects, including the sampling of ice cores from the summit of the volcano Mt Haddington.

Each day the team is being flown out from the ship to different locations all over the Antarctic Peninsula and are returned from their mountainous data gathering by the ship's two Lynx Helicopters.

Endurance headed to the Antarctic two months ago to undertake an 18 month tour of duty to gather survey data for UKHO and support scientific research throughout the Antarctic summer. She is also supporting the work done by the British Antarctic Survey breaking ice with her specially designed bow to take members of the survey team to remote areas that can only be reached by ship or helicopter.

Endurance is fitted with modern hydrographic surveying equipment and the data gathered will be fedback and processed by experts at UKHO in Taunton and drawn into charts used by mariners around the world.

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