Peter T Fretwell
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Peter T Fretwell
@ptfretwell.bsky.social
Scientist at British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge and author. Interest include Science, nature, cartography, Polar regions and satellite imagery/ remote sensing.
We've managed to get synchronous drone and satellite imagery for the first time 😊
November 25, 2025 at 10:37 AM
November 13, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Do you name your penguins Michelle?
November 12, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Cape Roget, by the looks of it.
November 6, 2025 at 11:19 PM
That's a risky strategy!
October 25, 2025 at 7:44 AM
It's a tricky one and becomes a philosophical argument. Should we restrict access to inviolate areas? What damage does it do? Who are we to have that power?
October 25, 2025 at 7:42 AM
You get an indication from the place named. If people visit they often like to mark the event by naming features. In this on the whole of the island, there is only one placename (lots of possibilities). That is a UK name done by BAS a decade ago, when we named Attenborough Strait.
October 25, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Bas scientists have been to many places since we published that paper, but not Latady.
October 24, 2025 at 10:25 PM
We have archived records from field reports. We publish a paper about our historic footprint -ANS-ANS23_06-S095410201100037Xa.pdf share.google/uHTIUXvYOiOu...
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October 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Terrible, Rothschild is the next island up to the north.
October 24, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Which does beg the question; what's the world's largest unvisited island? My bet would be an island called Smyley Island, also in the Bellingshausen Sea. It is probably slightly larger the Latady.
October 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM