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The U.K. science office on Tuesday said it was preparing to move the Halley VI Research Station to save it from splintering off into the sea. The station is a globally important platform for ...
In late February, the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) Halley VI Research Station closed for the 2021/22 season. The season saw some major developments at the station, including several significant ...
In 2018, Spain opened a new research station — and hired Mr. Broughton’s firm to design it. Like Halley VI, it cuts a strong figure, its modular buildings clad in bright red fiber-reinforced ...
The Halley Research Station was last moved in November 2017 due to the growth of two chasms in the ice shelf. However, the growing rifts have raised safety concerns for the researchers.
Things are looking dicey along the Brunt Ice Shelf, home to the British Antarctic Survey's Halley VI Research Station. NASA is keeping an eye on some growing cracks threatening to unload an ...
A mobile British research station in Antarctica will close for the winter, threatened by cracks in an ice shelf.
On December 6, 2016, Digital Journal reported BAS was finishing up on the relocation of its Halley VI research station because a giant chasm in the ice shelf was threatening to break off, leaving ...
The current station, Halley VI sits on hydraulic skis, rising high above the ice on stilt-like legs that allow driving snow to pass under the structure.
The British Antarctic Survey’s Halley VI research station will shut down for the second winter in a row due to growing cracks in the ice sheet where it sits, reports Nicola Davis at The Guardian ...
Citing the “power and unpredictability of nature,” British Antarctic Survey director Dame Jane Francis announced today that the Halley VI Research Station will be closed from March to November ...