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Jon Bushell reports on an unnerving medical incident during the Royal Society’s Halley Bay Antarctic expedition in 1957.

A look at the Antarctic observations of physicist Louis Bernacchi, the most experienced scientist on Captain Scott’s Discovery expedition to Antarctica in 1901.

Author Tim Foley tells the tale of a hardy Irishman in the Antarctic.

Part of the British contribution to the International Geophysical Year came courtesy of the Royal Society.