Gough Island Positions to be Filled

Gough Island Positions to be Filled

Gough Island jobs 2023

Join the 69th Gough Island Overwintering Team!

The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) is looking for suitable candidates to join the 2023/2024 Gough Island team.

The team will depart (on the research and supply vessel, S.A. Agulhas II) to Gough Island in September 2023 and return in October 2024. 

Positions to be filled:

  • Communications/Electronics Engineer
  • Diesel Mechanic
  • Electrician
  • Medical Orderly

APPLICATION DEADLINE: 20 March 2023

Click on the link below to view the positions to be filled.

SANAP JOBS Read more about Gough Island!

 

Anche Louw, South African Polar Research Infrastructure (SAPRI), 09 March 2023

News from Gough Island – The Bunting Jan 2023

News from Gough Island – The Bunting Jan 2023

The 68th Gough Island Overwintering Team has published their first newsletter – The Bunting – January 2023 (Issue 1). 

Gough Island - The Bunting Newsletter - January 2023

In this edition:

  • Letter from the team leader
  • Words from the G68 Bunting editorial team
  • Meet the G68 team
  • Birder’s Stories
  • Life in the Base (birthday celebration)
  • Farewell to Sandile (Medical Orderly of G67 who had to stay behind until a new medic is sent to Gough)
  • Weather Stats (October, November, December 2022)
  • To end the newsletter; a poem about an Albatross chick.

Click here to download/view the newsletter!

Birthdays celebrated by G68 so far:

 

Anche Louw, South African Polar Research Infrastructure (Data, Products & Society Node), 27 February 2023. 

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