Talk by Mike Gloistein about more than three decades of work with the British Antarctic Survey, with booking essential.
Mike Gloistein is coming to Scone Library on Tuesday 10 November for a talk called Polar Travels; A Life with the British Antarctic Survey. It's a long title for a simple enough premise: Gloistein spent more than three decades working with the British Antarctic Survey, and he's spending an evening talking about what that actually looked like.
That's a lot of time to spend in the far south. Over the course of his career, he served aboard four different research vessels, and the work earned him the Polar Medal. It's a rare kind of career—the sort of thing you don't often hear first-hand in a room in Perth—and the talk draws on those thirty-plus years of experience. Since then, Antarctic islets have been named after him, which is a hell of a way to leave a mark on a map.
The session is described as a rare insight into life and work in the polar regions, and that's the real draw here. It's not just the big-picture stuff; it's the day-to-day of living and working in one of the most remote places on earth, told by someone who was actually there. If you've ever wondered what it's like to spend your working life on the Southern Ocean, this is as close as you're likely to get.
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It runs from 19:00 to 20:30 at Scone Library, on Sandy Road in Scone, Perth, PH2 6LJ. Tickets are ÂŁ5.00, and booking is essential, so get yours sorted before the night.
