Antarctic diary: Polar year
BBC science producer Martin Redfern is spending a month in the Antarctic reporting on International Polar Year. You can follow his exploits on this page. TUESDAY 12 FEBRUARY - THE DEEP SOUTH We witness what could be a colony of emperor penguins We've had three days at sea, heading ever further South. The Captain on HMS Endurance, Bob Tarrant, has decided that it would not be time-effective to try to reach Thurston Island. Satellite images show a build-up of sea ice, so we might spend a week trying to get close and still not make it. Or worse, get stuck. But that means we've more chance of getting the scientists into sites on Alexander Island and around the Ronne entrance. The Ronne entrance marks the junction between the Antarctic Peninsula and the bulk of Western Antarctica, an