British Antarctic Survey (BAS) Website

HA 14

From 2001

This series contains dated gathered versions (or 'snapshots') of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) website.

[Please note: These records may be accessed via the UK Government Web Archive using the links listed below (for a general explanation of these parallel links, please see the Arrangement field)]:

British Antarctic Survey (BAS) (http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/).

British Antarctic Survey (https://www.bas.ac.uk).

Please see information at Divisional level.

This series contains more than one link to the ‘snapshots’ of this website. For some websites, the URL may change periodically. Despite this change to the URL these websites are part of the same record series as they represent the department or organisation’s presence on the web at the time. Occasionally, more than one domain URL to the same website may run in parallel creating an overlap.

See also HA 35

Public Record(s)

English

• British Antarctic Survey, 1962-1962
• Natural Environment Research Council, 1965-1965

archived website(s)

Open

Gathered from original website.

Topics

Polar

Official publications

Future website versions may be anticipated.

British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is a component of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and is the UK's national Antarctic operator, and has been responsible for most of the UK?s scientific research in Antarctica. The organisation was renamed the British Antarctic Survey in 1962, but had its origins in Operation Tabarin which was a small British expedition in 1943 to establish permanently-occupied bases in the Antarctic which also had a scientific role, collecting data on Antarctic biology, geology and weather during the last two years of the war. This was a joint undertaking by the Admiralty and the Colonial Office. At the end of the war it was renamed the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) and full control passed to the Colonial Office.