Preparation for the upcoming field season is well underway with BAS operations and logistics coordinating visits to a wide variety of sites. We’ll be highlighting some of the interesting places staff will be researching as the season starts.
Seymour Island will be visited in the 23/24 season. It was first sighted by Ross in 1843 and named after Rear Admiral Sir George Francis Seymour RN and thought to be a cape until 1892 when it was charted by Larsen. During 1892-1893 Larsen made landings on the island and the first recorded fossils from the Antarctic were collected.
Further south, Fossil Bight is so named after the numerous fossils found in the region by the USARP and Argentine researchers in 1982. Cape Wiman is named after Carl Johan Josef Wiman, Professor of Palaeontology (1911-33), who worked on fossils collect by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (SwAE). Related to that expedition, Bodman Point is named for Dr Gösta Bodman, member of the sledge party of SwAE in 1902-03. Similarly, Bertodano Bay is named after J. López de Bertodano of the Argentine corvette Uruguay, which rescued the SwAE in 1903.
