Glacial retreat at Gold Harbour, South Georgia: discovering unforeseen geology, remembering unexpected guests

• Main Author: Stone, Phil
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Antarctic; Austral; Gold Harbour; Bertrab; Cooper Bay; Barff Peninsula; Bertrab Glacier; Antarc*; British Antarctic Survey
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/525903/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/525903/1/Gold%20Harbour%204%20text%2Bfigs.pdf; http://www.falklandislandsjournal.org/

Back in the early 1970s it was my good fortune to work on South Georgia for the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). I spent three austral summers deciphering the geology of the north-east coast from Barff Peninsula down to Cooper Bay, and for the 1971-72 season, with support from Eric Lawther as GA1, my...