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SUMMARY:Lent Term Lecture 1 - 'Empire Antarctica: Ice\, Silence & Emperor 
 Penguins' by Gavin Francis
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CONTACT:Ellen Bazeley-White
DESCRIPTION:Gavin Francis is the author of 'Empire Antarctica'\, a book pu
 blished by Chatto & Windus this year which describes his 14 months as base
  doctor at Halley\, a British Antarctic Survey station on the Caird Coast 
 at 75 deg South.  The base is the most remote operated by the British\, an
 d has been continuously occupied since it was set up for the International
  Geophysical Year in 1956.\nIt is also beside one of the continent's large
 st colonies of emperor penguins. Join us for an illustrated talk as Gavin 
 takes us through the seasons at Halley\, visits aspects of the 'Heroic Age
 ' of Antarctic Exploration\, and what lessons it still has to teach BAS st
 aff today about overwintering. He will also describe a year in the life of
  the emperors which\, as Gavin writes\, 'through the months of cold and is
 olation reminded me that I was part of a community of the living.'
LOCATION:SPRI Lecture Theatre\, Lensfield Road
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