Antarctica is one of the driest and windiest places on earth. It is the single biggest mass of ice in the world and can sometimes be up to four miles thick. The continent as a whole contains about 90 percent of the planet's freshwater ice and around 70 percent of the total fresh water on earth! Yet around Antarctica the waters teem with life. In 2022 Andy Beharrell visited South Georgia and Antarctica on a 1915 Dutch Herring Drifter and will illustrate the talk with photos from that trip. As well as the history of the Antarctic exploration the talk will look at the wildlife and natural history of the whole Antarctica region.
Date and Time: Thursday 25th January 2024, Doors open at 11:00, Talk at 11:30, Lunch at 13:00.
Venue: Royal Harwich Yacht Club, Woolverstone, Ipswich, IP9 1AT; Lat and Long: N52⁰ 0.34’ E001⁰ 11.8’; National Grid Reference: TM 1952 3896; What.Three.Words: ///lion.jumpy.chuckling.
Free car parking at the Club.
Download directions to the Club here.
What: Winter Talk, with or without a meal.
Open to: Members of the CA, CS, RHYC, and their guests.
Book now on the RHYC website: CA-RHYC-Cruising to Antarctica on a 1915 dutch herring drifter
Contact: Simon and Georgette, Suffolk@theca.org.uk