Steve ‘Binky’ Stiglic-Buxton – Electronics Officer (Communications) Congratulations to British Antarctic Survey (BAS) staff who have been awarded a Polar Medal in the 2025 New Year’s ...

Three British Antarctic Survey (BAS) staff have been awarded the Polar Medal. The announcement was published Friday 28 January in the London Gazette. Melody Clark is a molecular scientist at BAS.

In fact, reports indicate only one of the intrepid polar adventurer’s medals remains in the country. And, at least for now, the British government plans to keep it that way. Shackleton’s Polar ...

So numerous are his medals that he lumps them thus: Patron’s Medal, 1928, by Royal Geographical Society, for work in Polar regions, culminating in (1928) flight from Point Barrow to Spitsbergen ...