Peter T Fretwell

We've managed to get synchronous drone and satellite imagery for the first time 😊

We've been doing drone surveys and tagging the emperors of Snow Hill Island.

Text reads ‘New walrus haul-out discovery sparks a call for walrus detective’. Smaller text in the bottom right corner reads ‘Tusk tusk!’. Image of a group of walrus hauled up on a rock, surrounded by blue water in bright light.

Could you be our next walrus detective? 🕵
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Satellite imagery has helped scientists discover a new walrus haul-out site. And it's sparked a call for your help! 📢

To safeguard their future, we urgently need to understand how they’re affected by the climate crisis.👇
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We've had whales galore today. Humpbacks next to the boat, minkes within 20 metres and killer whales swimming under the bow. Welcome to Antarctica.

Reminder.

Art exhibition this weekend!
Illustrations from our book: The Penguin book of penguins. Framed and unframed, as well as a selection of Christmas cards.

Pop along to the Red Lion pub, Swaffham prior, Cambridge anytime after 1pm this weekend! What are you waiting for?

An aerial view of elephant seals on a beach

Bad news in from South Georgia - the population of breeding female elephant seals has nearly halved following a bird flu outbreak on the sub-Antarctic island.

Here's what we know so far...

📸 Connor Bamford

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Itn report on our world on the impact of Avian flu on South Georgia elephant seals

Do you name your penguins Michelle?

I’ve received a signed copy of “The Penguin Book of Penguins” from Dr. Peter Fretwell!

So happy and grateful ✨

It’s a beautiful and insightful book — one I’d truly recommend to everyone who loves penguins.

Now part of my beloved penguin treasures.

@ptfretwell.bsky.social

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A bright, colourful map titled 'TECTONIC MAP OF THE SCOTIA ARC'. The map covers South America, the Scotia Sea, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, and the Antarctic Peninsula. Bathymetry is shown with varying shades of blue.

We've recently created a new collection of legacy maps in our Catalogue, which will be added to over time. For now, we have 3 interesting maps available to view and download: data.bas.ac.uk/collections/...
The Scotia Arc is one of our favourites. The map was a massive compilation effort at the time!

This sounds like a fascinating evening talk!

Cape Roget, by the looks of it.

Happy Halloween. I'm off round the village with my daughter to scare a few kids ( not sure why they should have all the fun!)

That's a risky strategy!

It's a tricky one and becomes a philosophical argument. Should we restrict access to inviolate areas? What damage does it do? Who are we to have that power?

You get an indication from the place named. If people visit they often like to mark the event by naming features. In this on the whole of the island, there is only one placename (lots of possibilities). That is a UK name done by BAS a decade ago, when we named Attenborough Strait.

Bas scientists have been to many places since we published that paper, but not Latady.

We have archived records from field reports. We publish a paper about our historic footprint -ANS-ANS23_06-S095410201100037Xa.pdf share.google/uHTIUXvYOiOu...

Terrible, Rothschild is the next island up to the north.

Which does beg the question; what's the world's largest unvisited island? My bet would be an island called Smyley Island, also in the Bellingshausen Sea. It is probably slightly larger the Latady.

British Antarctic Survey Alexander Island map 2025.

This is Latady Island(pronounced la-tarday) in the Bellingshausen Sea in Antarctica. It is 115 km long, but as far as we can see from BAS records no human being has ever landed on it.

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(This video is officially released.)

The Emperor Penguin chick hatched on September 30, 2025, successfully transitioned to natural rearing at 21 days old on October 21.
The foster parents are a 7-year-old female and a 6-year-old male, both individuals born at Adventure World.

We really enjoyed hearing from Grant about his Space Penguins last night! Check out our forthcoming program of Monday Night Talks here: www.nhsn.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Really enjoyed giving a talk on our penguin 🐧 work last night at the Natural History Society of Northumbria @nenature.bsky.social - I was the warm-up for this fantastic talk on Great Auks by Tim Birkhead

Looks healthy 😀

Damn annoying, confusing our satellite analysis. Someone needs to tell them it's not allowed!

The Dawson-Lambton penguin colony 🐧🐧🐧

Image taken by Sentinel-2 on Oct. 6, 2025.

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