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This guide sets out who has to apply for a permit, how to apply and explains the other rules covering travel to Antarctica.
FCDO travel advice for the British Antarctic Territory. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.
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The British Antarctic Territory (BAT) is a UK Overseas Territory administered in London by the Polar Regions Department of the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office.
Results confirm High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza (HPAI) has been found in elephant and fur seals on the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia.
The United Kingdom and Chile have agreed to cooperate on shared Antarctic objectives between 2017 and 2022.
A framework for British research, outlining the UK’s science strategy in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean from 2014 to 2020.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
The Foreign Secretary toasts British embassies and high commissions worldwide as they fly the flag for Scotland this Burns Night.
This privacy notice outlines the data the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) Polar Regions Department processes for permit applications to enter Antarctica.
Speech by the Minister for Polar Regions, Sir Alan Duncan, at the Polar APPG
Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR)
The government of the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) has published its enhanced and revised Heritage Strategy.
The waters between Ireland and the UK were once covered by a huge ice sheet comparable in size to the glaciers found today in Antarctica
This document contains the following information: Draft Antarctic Bill.
First published during the 2005 to 2010 Labour government
On the centenary of the return to Valparaiso of Pardo and Shackleton, how the achievement was eclipsed, and the importance of Antarctica today.
This statement provides an update on the AAIB investigation into an accident involving a De Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter, VP-FBC, which collided with obstacle on takeoff, Mount Lymburner, Antarctica, 23 January 2023.
Minister for the Americas, Caribbean and the Overseas Territories David Rutley gave a speech at an Arctic reception at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office.
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