Dramatis persona*

helenhead Helen Chick

I've always wanted a bumper sticker that said "I'm a female, LDS/Mormon, Scout leading, geocaching, piano-playing, bicycling, mathematics educator with a PhD in maths ... and I VOTE"!

I think this makes me a minority group of cardinality 1!

* Since there's only one of me and "personae" is plural (I think), I've gone with dramatis persona.
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BT – Christmas eve dinner

We had known for a couple of days that dinner on Christmas eve was going to be a significant ship-board event. A few of us hatched a plan to make it even more Christmassy and special by lining up some carolling and singing. We thought Silent Night might be widely enough known to be able to […]

BT – Here be whales … and a few more icebergs

After lunch we started making our way northward, heading up the Gerlach Strait between the Antarctic Peninsula and Anvers and Brabant Islands as a big step in our journey back to South America. The weather wasn’t the best — overcast and a bit windy — but this helped to remind us how bleak it can be […]

BT – Port Lockroy and Jougla Point

Goudier Island (S 64°49.5′ W 63°29.7′) is about the size of a hockey field, and sits in Port Lockroy which is part of Wiencke Island. It is home to an old British base that dates back to the second world war, which is now a designated historic site. Volunteers from the UK’s Antarctic Heritage Trust work […]