by Ria Olivier | Feb 5, 2020 | Announcement, Gough Island, Jobs
The next Gough Island Overwintering Expedition will depart from Cape Town in September 2020. This will be the 66th Gough Island overwintering team who will return to Cape Town in October 2021.
Positions currently advertised:
If you are interested in applying to overwinter, please click here.
Please note that applications close between 1 March 2020.
Please download the PDF advert of the position you are interested in and follow the application instructions as set out in the advert. Download Z83 here
Read more:
Recent newsletter of Gough65 team (Click here).
Click here and here for more information on Gough Island (English).
Photo Credit: Julius Klette
by Ria Olivier | Feb 4, 2020 | Gough Island, Newsletters>Gough Island Newsletters, Overwintering Team, Uncategorised
Gough 65 overwintering team now already 4 months at Gough Island. Team is Bubele Nongwejana, Thabiso Maphumulo, Gilbert Kgang, Errol Julies, Thendo Sikhwari, Siyasanga Mphehle, Dylan Seaton, Michelle Risi-Jones, Alexis Osborne and Christopher Jones.
Read more about their festive celebrations, team members, World Albatross day and the Mice Eradication program. The newsletter is now available on the Antarctic Legacy of South Africa archive.
by Fishgate@sanap | Oct 24, 2019 | Gough Island, News, Overwintering Team, Team member
In this edition:
- Meet the 65th Gough Island Overwintering Team
- The first birthday party of G65
Gough65 celebrating team member, Bubele Nongwejana’s birthday. Photo: Thendo Sikhwari
- September weather
- and more…
- click here to view more photos of Bubele Nongwejana enjoying his birthday party.
Anché Louw, Antarctic Legacy of South Africa, 24 October 2019
by Fishgate@sanap | Sep 4, 2019 | Gough Island, News, Overwintering Team, SA Agulhas II, SANAP, Southern Ocean, Tristan da Cunha
The S.A. Agulhas II departed from the Port of Cape Town at around 10pm, 02 September 2019 and will return on 07 October 2019. Click here to view the voyage schedule.
Who is onboard:
- The 65th Gough Island overwintering team – this team will be joined by the Gough64 field assistants forming part of Gough65.
- Scientists from South African Weather Service, University of Pretoria and Nelson Mandela University.
- Advanced party of the Gough Island Restoration Team led by Andrew Callender (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds).
- Team to deploy the new Gough Island emergency hut led by Dr Guy Preston.
- Team of the Department of Public Works.
- Logistics and coordinating team from the Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries (DEFF).
- Passengers on their way to Tristan da Cunha.
- Read more here.
Meet Gough65:
| Team Member | Position |
| Mr Errol Julies | Communication/Electronics Engineer and Team Leader |
| Mr Thendo Sikhwari | Senior Meteorological Technician and Deputy Team Leader |
| Ms Michelle Risi-Jones | Field Assistant and Deputy Team Leader- Scientific |
| Mr Dylan Seaton | Meteorological Technician |
| Ms Siyasanga Mphehle | Meteorological Technician |
| Mr Thabiso Maphumulo | Electrician |
| Mr Bubele Nongwejana | Medical Orderly |
| Mr Gilbert Kgang | Diesel Mechanic |
| Mr Christopher Jones | Field Assistant |
| Mr Alexis Osborne | Field Assistant |
L-R: Bubele Nongwejana, Thabiso Maphumulo, Gilbert Kgang, Errol Julies, Thendo Sikhwari, Siyasanga Mphehle and Dylan Seaton.
Field assistants: Michelle Risi-Jones, Alexis Osborne and Christopher Jones. Photo Credit: Michelle Risi-Jones.
Meet the team leader and deputy team leader of Gough65
Anché Louw, Antarctic Legacy of South Africa, 04 September 2019
by Fishgate@sanap | Jun 21, 2019 | Antarctica, Current Event, Gough Island, Important Dates, Marion Island, News, Overwintering Team, SANAE, SANAP
Mid-Winter is celebrated right across Antarctica by all the nations & stations. It is the 0ldest tradition in Antarctica and refers to the Winter Solstice (or hibernal solstice). It occurs when one of the Earth’s poles has its maximum tilt away from the Sun. It happens twice yearly, once in each hemisphere (Northern and Southern). For that hemisphere, the winter solstice is the day with the shortest period of daylight and longest night of the year, when the Sun is at its lowest daily maximum elevation in the sky.
At the pole, there is continuous darkness or twilight around the winter solstice. Its opposite is the summer solstice.
The winter solstice occurs during the hemisphere’s winter. In the Southern Hemisphere, this is the June solstice (usually 20 or 21 June). Although the winter solstice itself lasts only a moment, the term sometimes refers to the day on which it occurs. Other names are “midwinter”, the “extreme of winter” (Dongzhi), or the “shortest day”.
So, for Antarctic Expeditioners / Overwinterers the worst is over with regards to dark (lack of light and sunlight).
Happy Mid- Winter to all – share this email far and wide.
From all of us
Jasmine Arnold
Office Administrator to The Ship’s Operations Manager | Directorate: Southern Oceans & Antarctic Support | Office address: East Pier, Waterfront | Direct no: 021 405 9485 | Switchboard: 021 405 9400
Mid-winter Event Pretoria, South Africa – organised by Carol Jacobs :
by Fishgate@sanap | Jun 21, 2019 | Antarctica, Current Event, Gough Island, News, SANAP
Happy mid-winter from our Antarctic station (SANAE), sub-Antarctic station (Marion Island) and Gough Island.
Antarctica – where the 58th overwintering team will be celebrating mid-winter.
Marion Island – where the 76th overwintering team will be celebrating mid-winter.
Gough Island – where the 64th overwintering team will be celebrating mid-winter.
Gough 65 overwintering team now already 4 months at Gough Island. Team is Bubele Nongwejana, Thabiso Maphumulo, Gilbert Kgang, Errol Julies, Thendo Sikhwari, Siyasanga Mphehle, Dylan Seaton, Michelle Risi-Jones, Alexis Osborne and Christopher Jones.
