The Antarctic Legacy of South Africa is a three-year (2015/17) National Research Foundation-funded project that forms part of the South African National Antarctic Programme.
The project is based in the Department of Botany & Zoology, Stellenbosch University. Thanks to a new grant of R2.3 million from the National Research Foundation (NRF), a database on South Africa’s role in the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic since 1948 will now be made more comprehensive and more readily available to a wider audience via a website. The Antarctic Legacy Database Project was initiated in 2009 to record the significant role South Africans have played in scientific, biological, meteorological and other research “down south” in the Antarctic region. The project was initially funded by the NRF under the auspices of the South African National Antarctic Programme (SANAP). Ms Ria Olivier, Information Officer at the Legacy Project, says so far the database consists of nearly 3 000 entries. These include recordings of oral interviews conducted with ex-team members and other individuals involved with SANAP, newspaper cuttings, articles from popular magazines, bibliographic lists of academic publications in journals and books, black and white and colour photographic images, films and videos, unpublished drawings and other artwork, diaries, unpublished manuscripts and even artefacts (the last deposited at the Iziko Museums of South Africa). The database is managed from within the Department of Botany and Zoology at Stellenbosch University and is hosted by the J.S. Gericke Library at SU. https://www.facebook.com/groups/409942979164222/ Comments are closed.
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