The stunning true story of how a British expedition to the Antarctic helped defeat the Nazis has been revealed for the first time in a new book. Launched at the 1943 height of World War Two, Operation ...

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) celebrated 60 years of scientific research in Antarctica as the UK’s national operator. BAS evolved from the Falkland Islands Dependency Survey (FIDS), following on ...

A hitherto untold story is set to shed light on a top-secret mission instigated by Churchill and the War Cabinet during the Second World War. The mission, codenamed Operation Tabarin after a Paris ...

THE stunning true story of how a British expedition to the Antarctic helped defeat the Nazis has been revealed for the first time in a new book. Launched at the 1943 height of World War Two, Operation ...

The United Kingdom Antarctic Heritage Trust (UKAHT) marked the 70th anniversary of Operation Tabarin, which laid the foundations for one of the most important and enduring government sponsored ...

It was November 1943 and the men, an eccentric mix of scientists, biologists and other specialists but no actual soldiers, were setting off to seize Antarctica from Tilbury docks in Essex aboard HMS ...

07:01, Sun, Nov 8, 2020 Updated: 11:31, Sun, Nov 8, 2020 Port Lockroy is a bay forming a natural harbour on the north-western shore of Wiencke Island in the Palmer Archipelago of the Antarctic ...

Captain Victor Marchesi, who has died aged 92, was an unsung hero of Operation Tabarin, which secretly safeguarded British interests in the Antarctic during the Second World War. In 1943 he joined ...

Gwion Davies, who has died aged 87, regarded himself as the handyman of Operation Tabarin, the expedition launched in 1943 to safeguard British sovereignty in the Antarctic, south of the Falkland ...

Operation Tabarin was said to be a top-secret project to establish military bases and watch German and Japanese activities in the freezing South Pole - but is now said to have had other motivations ...