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98 RGS-IBG Polar Expeditions Manual<br />
11. APPENDICES<br />
11.1 UK Polar Expedition Resources<br />
Your starting point should be the huge volume of polar information on the web (see<br />
below). Contact one of the polar libraries for more depth or detail. The Scott Polar<br />
Research Institute, part of Cambridge University, has one of the best polar libraries in the<br />
world. Call to discuss your research needs. For a small fee they will search their accessions<br />
database and send you an annotated bibliography, saving hours of work at the library.<br />
Amongst those UK organisations which have particular expertise in polar regions are:<br />
British Antarctic Survey<br />
High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK.<br />
Tel: +44 (0)1223 221400; fax: +44 (0)1223 362616; email:<br />
information@bas.ac.uk<br />
Website: www.antarctica.ac.uk/<br />
BSES Expeditions, 1 Kensington Gore, <strong>London</strong> SW7 2AR, UK. Tel: +44 (0)20 75<strong>91</strong><br />
3141; fax: +44 (0)20 75<strong>91</strong> 3140; email: bses@rgs.org, website: www.bses.org.uk.<br />
Runs youth expeditions to polar regions.<br />
Expedition Advisory Centre, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), 1 Kensington<br />
Gore, <strong>London</strong> SW7 2AR, UK. Tel: +44 (0)207 5<strong>91</strong> 3030; fax: +44 (0)207 5<strong>91</strong><br />
3031; email: eac@rgs.org; website: www.rgs.org/eac<br />
Polar Regions Section, Foreign and Commonwealth Office<br />
King Charles Street, <strong>London</strong> SW1A 2AH, UK. Tel: +44 20 7008 3543, fax: +44 20<br />
7008 2086. Arctic and Antarctic Advice and Antarctic permits.<br />
Email: Prs.fco@gtnet.gov.uk, Website: www.fco.gov.uk,<br />
Provide permits and impact assessment information for expeditions to Antarctica.<br />
Poles Apart, David Rootes and Nick Lewis, PO Box 89, Bourn, Cambridge CB3 7TF,<br />
UK. Tel & fax: +44 (0)1954 718044; email: polesapart@polesapart.org; website:<br />
www.polesapart.org. As commercial consultants, Poles Apart are the primary<br />
environmental and logistics group specialising in the polar regions. They publish an<br />
annual legislation review which provides essential information on permitting.<br />
Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI)<br />
Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1ER, UK. Tel: +44 1223 336540, fax: +44 1223<br />
336549: email: enquiries@spri.cam.ac.uk; website: www.spri.cam.ac.uk<br />
SPRI has the best polar library in the UK (and possibly the world). Extensive book<br />
and reprint collection of all disciplines relating to Arctic and Antarctic regions and<br />
a good starting point for research. Library includes expedition reports, maps and<br />
archive collection. Open to the public <strong>by</strong> appointment only. Excellent on-line<br />
resources. See their website for worldwide listing of International Polar Institutes.<br />
Snowsled, Marketplace Mews, The Green, Tetbury, Gloucestershire GL8 8DN UK. Tel<br />
& fax: +44 (0) 1666 502731; email: polar@snowsled.com; website:<br />
www.snowsled.com. Suppliers of specialist polar equipment including pulks and<br />
polar tents.<br />
Tangent Expeditions (UK) offers various guided trips onto the Greenland ice cap as<br />
well as providing logistics for independent expeditions. Tangent Expeditions<br />
International, 3 Millbeck, New Hutton, Kendal, Cumbria LA8 0BD, UK. Tel: +44
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