A Decade of Navigation in the Antarctic

• Published in: Journal of Navigation
• Main Authors: Le Pla, P., Draper, J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1978
• Subjects: Ocean Engineering; Oceanography; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Protector; Draper; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0373463300041916; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0373463300041916

It has been the Government's policy to maintain an occasional British naval presence in the Antarctic, deploying the Royal Navy's Ice Patrol Ship south each year during the southern summer, when the ice and weather are slightly more clement. Ten years ago one of the authors was navigating...