Introduction
The Falkland Islands was visited by and used for provisioning and as a base for many research expeditions to the Falkland Islands Dependencies and Antarctica.
Between 1839 and 1843 Captain James Clark Ross, in command of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror completed three voyages to the Antarctic continent, visiting the Falkland Islands April 1842.
The Challenger Expedition of 1872 to 1876, named after HMS Challenger the vessel which travelled 68,890 nautical miles surveying and exploring, called into the Falkland Islands 23 January 1876.
Operation Tabarin was established in 1944 as a means to safeguard the Falkland Islands from Japanese invasion and to ensure that enemy ships could not establish bases in British Antarctic territory. Local vessels played an integral part in the set up and supply. At the end of World War II the three bases and their scientific work were transferred to the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). FIDS was renamed British Antarctic Survey (BAS) in 1962 and BAS ships would pass through the Falkland Islands on their way South.
Operation Taberin 1943 - crew of RRS William Scoresby in Montevideo.
Jimmy Halliday, Ernest Luxton, James Gleadall, Percy Stanley "Stan" Dixon, Mrs Marchesi, Ambassador & Mrs Millington-Drake, Captain Victor Marchesi
- photograph Luxton Collection, JCNA
Government Files
SHI-VES-8-5. Policy regarding employment of labour. Crew of mv John Biscoe.pdf2 MB
SHI-VES-9-9. Falkland Islanders forming part of crew of RY Penola.pdf4.41 MB
SHI-VES-13-15. Registration of Shackleton.pdf1.77 MB
SHI-VES-13-26. Behaviour of Officers and Crew of RSS William Scoresby.pdf3.32 MB
Log Books and Crew Agreements
ss Fitzroy
mv John Biscoe
SHI-LOG-JO-1 Agreement and List of the Crew - 26 April 1948 to 1 May 1949.pdf1.53 MB
SHI-LOG-JO-2 Official Log Book and Agreement and List of the Crew - 2 May 1949 to 28 April 1950.pdf3.42 MB
SHI-LOG-JO-3 Official Log Book and Agreement and List of the Crew - 28 April 1950 to 3 May 1951.pdf3.96 MB
SHI-LOG-JO-4 Official Log Book and Agreement and List of the Crew - 3 May 1951 to 10 June 1952.pdf3.28 MB
SHI-LOG-JO-5 Official Log Book and Agreement and List of the Crew - 10 June 1952 to 7 May 1953.pdf3.43 MB
mv John Biscoe II
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