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98 RGS-IBG Polar Expeditions Manual 11. APPENDICES 11.1 UK Polar Expedition Resources Your starting point should be the huge volume of polar information on the web (see below). Contact one of the polar libraries for more depth or detail. The Scott Polar Research Institute, part of Cambridge University, has one of the best polar libraries in the world. Call to discuss your research needs. For a small fee they will search their accessions database and send you an annotated bibliography, saving hours of work at the library. Amongst those UK organisations which have particular expertise in polar regions are: British Antarctic Survey High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK. Tel: +44 (0)1223 221400; fax: +44 (0)1223 362616; email: information@bas.ac.uk Website: www.antarctica.ac.uk/ BSES Expeditions, 1 Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AR, UK. Tel: +44 (0)20 7591 3141; fax: +44 (0)20 7591 3140; email: bses@rgs.org, website: www.bses.org.uk. Runs youth expeditions to polar regions. Expedition Advisory Centre, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), 1 Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AR, UK. Tel: +44 (0)207 591 3030; fax: +44 (0)207 591 3031; email: eac@rgs.org; website: www.rgs.org/eac Polar Regions Section, Foreign and Commonwealth Office King Charles Street, London SW1A 2AH, UK. Tel: +44 20 7008 3543, fax: +44 20 7008 2086. Arctic and Antarctic Advice and Antarctic permits. Email: Prs.fco@gtnet.gov.uk, Website: www.fco.gov.uk, Provide permits and impact assessment information for expeditions to Antarctica. Poles Apart, David Rootes and Nick Lewis, PO Box 89, Bourn, Cambridge CB3 7TF, UK. Tel & fax: +44 (0)1954 718044; email: polesapart@polesapart.org; website: www.polesapart.org. As commercial consultants, Poles Apart are the primary environmental and logistics group specialising in the polar regions. They publish an annual legislation review which provides essential information on permitting. Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1ER, UK. Tel: +44 1223 336540, fax: +44 1223 336549: email: enquiries@spri.cam.ac.uk; website: www.spri.cam.ac.uk SPRI has the best polar library in the UK (and possibly the world). Extensive book and reprint collection of all disciplines relating to Arctic and Antarctic regions and a good starting point for research. Library includes expedition reports, maps and archive collection. Open to the public by appointment only. Excellent on-line resources. See their website for worldwide listing of International Polar Institutes. Snowsled, Marketplace Mews, The Green, Tetbury, Gloucestershire GL8 8DN UK. Tel & fax: +44 (0) 1666 502731; email: polar@snowsled.com; website: www.snowsled.com. Suppliers of specialist polar equipment including pulks and polar tents. Tangent Expeditions (UK) offers various guided trips onto the Greenland ice cap as well as providing logistics for independent expeditions. Tangent Expeditions International, 3 Millbeck, New Hutton, Kendal, Cumbria LA8 0BD, UK. Tel: +44
Appendices 99 (0)1539 737757; fax: +44 (0)1539 737556; email: paul@tangent-expeditions.co.uk; website: www.tangent-expeditions.co.uk The Polar Travel Company, Wydemeet, Hexworthy, Yelveton, Devon PL20 6SF, UK. Tel: +44 (0)1364 631470; fax: +44 (0)1364 631270; email: info@polartravel.co.uk; website: www.polartravel.co.uk. Organised McVities Penguin Polar Relay North Pole Expedition. Offers guided trips to the Arctic and Antarctic, polar expeditions training courses and consultancy services. UK Antarctic Heritage Trust Address: c/o Administrato, Kingcoed Farm, Usk, South Wales. NP15 DS. Tel. 01291 690305. Email: ukaht@dircon.co.uk Website: www.heritage-Antarctica.org/ahtuk Polar Expedition Reports Dozens of expedition reports to Polar Regions are available for consultation at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) in London. Various polar expedition reports also held at the libraries of the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, and the Danish Polar Centre in Denmark. Useful websites: Location Description Notes www.lonelyplanet.comdestination/ Lonely Planet on-line guide antarctica/antarctica/read.htm to Antarctica http://npolar.no Norsk Polar Institut Administers expeditions to Svalbard http://www.arcticphoto.co.uk/ Arctic Photographers (Bryan and Cherry, Alexander) Great site for polar images http://www.crrel.usace.army.mil/li Cold Regions Research & Vast collection of cold brary/crrel_library.html Engineering Laboratory regions scientific and Library technical literature. www.caff.is Conservation of Arctic Fauna Arctic conservation site – and Flora based in Hafnarstraeti 97, 600 Akureyri www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factb Central Office of World Fact book – good ook/ Intelligence, USA starting point for research www.dpc.dk Danish Polar Centre Administer expeditions to Greenland www.grida.no/amap GRID-AMAP Arctic Monitoring and Assessment www.urova.fi/home/arktinen/polar Polar Web Guide to Arctic and Antarctic web/polarweb.htm internet resources. Grant giving organisations See list of ‘grant giving organisations’ on the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) website for complete list of expedition-related grants: www.rgs.org/grants
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