Royal Navy ice patrol ship 'HMS Endurance', pictured breaking through ice north of James Ross Island as she carries out survey work in the Antarctic.
The survey was carried on behalf of the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) on an 18-month deployment in the area, is currently transferring scientists to Mount Haddington where they will be carrying out ice drilling for the next two months. Endurance's first task on arrival in the South Atlantic is focusing on the South Shetland Islands and the difficult to reach James Ross Island in Erebus and Terror Gulf (Weddell Sea). This involves the ship operating in dense areas of ice, in some of the most extreme weather conditions on Earth. Onboard Endurance are five scientific teams from the British Antarctic Survey who are working on independent projects, including the sampling of ice cores from the summit of the volcano Mt Haddington. Each day the team is being flown out from the ship to different locations all over the Antarctic Peninsula and is returned from their mountainous data gathering by the ship's two Lynx Helicopters. Endurance is fitted with modern hydrographic surveying equipment and experts at UKHO in Taunton will process the data gathered.
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