Both China and India already have polar research stations in the northern part of Norway, as do most of the other observer nations.
The '"lost" photographs, thought to be missing for much of the 20th Century, were acquired by the Scott Polar Research Institute in the spring.
Dr Lewis-Jones, the former curator at the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge, who first met Mr Lowe in 2005, called him a "hero".
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Jason Box, a scientist with Ohio State University's Byrd Polar Research Center, has also been monitoring the Petermann Glacier and in September 2011 he told OurAmazingPlanet that a growing crack likely would sever the glacier once warmer weather took hold during the summer months.
Earlier this month, at Ny Alesund, I went aboard the Norwegian Polar Institute's research vessel, the Lance.
Research with polar rovers costs less than aircraft or satellites, the usual platforms.
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And the chances of finding it were boosted last week by research in another inhospitable polar corner.
Independent lines of research involving helioseismology and surface polar fields tend to support their conclusion.
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In the course of this reincarnation story, Beard manages to have his wife's research-student lover slip on a polar-bear rug, hit his head and die.
"From outer space, all you can see at first is ice and a little brown stain, " said research fellow Michelle LaRue at the University of Minnesota's Polar Geospatial Center.
Now in recognition of Tudor's hardy entrepreneurial spirit - as well as almost two decades of scientific research on the continent - he has been awarded the Queen's Polar Medal (PM) in the New Year's honours list.
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Information on Arctic Ice research can be found at The International Arctic Climate System Study, a global consortium of polar scientists.
Before the research papers of the IPY's scientists are published, for those living on the southern polar cap, climate change is already palpable.
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