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13 September 2012
Purchasers have a brief window to get vital equipment to Britain’s Antarctic scientific survey teams. David Arminas explains how they supply a year-round operation in weeks
The warm, leafy lanes of Cambridge are far from the wastes of the frozen Antarctic. But winter conditions are constantly on the minds of purchasers at the Cambridge-based British Antarctic Survey (BAS).
In fact, they live for winter. When it is 30 degrees celsius, they think 30 degrees below celsius. When people shop for swimsuits and straw hats, they buy winter...