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December 2022 Museum Christmas Blog by Aoife McKenna, Curatorial Assistant December already! It certainly crept up on us down in South Georgia. With over a thousand visitors to the museum, a bustling social events calendar, and the peak of Fur Seal mating season, we had

November was our first full month as a whole team and we have already attended weddings together, witnessed births and successfully moved house! Let me introduce you to my new Family of the Southern Hemisphere : Aoife: (Museum Intern) Whaling station tour leader extraordinaire and

Travelling to such a remote island involves a lot of planning in advance, and there’s a saying on Antarctic research stations – ‘all plans subject to change’. So, in summer this year we (Director, Deirdre and Curator, Jayne) made some travel arrangements for our journey

LEAVING SOUTH GEORGIA March 2020 It was a different end to the season than anticipated; the Covid19 pandemic affecting even the most remote areas of the world.Working life was normal as March started. For the first ten days we had a busy ship schedule that

CURATOR JAYNE AND THE IMPORTANCE OF PROPER TEA When you see South Georgia for the first time, all you see is the steep sided, snow-capped peaks that run straight down into the sea. For me, the most significant sight was the trees – or rather

MUSEUM ASSISTANT HANNAH EDUCATES YOU IN THE LOCAL LINGO January 2020 As a language teacher in ‘real life’, I’ve become aware of the many terms that we use here in our daily lives in our own South Georgian dialect. Therefore, I’ve set myself the challenge

December is the month when fur seal puppy numbers exploded between Grytviken and King Edward Point with numbers rising from 32 to 204 in a month! We even witnessed a pup being born and we have our very own blondie pup! The weather was very

TAKING PRIDE IN OUR WORK Caitlin, the Fundraising Assistant, reports on the November activites at the South Georgia Museum. At the beginning of the month we welcomed the cruise ship NG Explorer which kindly brought our final member of the museum team, Jérôme. He was soon put

A CRISP START TO THE SEASON It is already well into to November as we upload the first museum blog of a new season, but we have been so busy that this has been the first opportunity to let you know that we are back