FINN(COM) DAILY RECORD: FRIDAY, 04 FEBRUARY 2005
Compiled by J. Brock (FINN)
As of the close of business on Thursday, 03 February 2005, the amount in the Tsunami Earthquake Appeal Fund at the Standard Chartered Bank stood at £7,115.08.
Planning and Building Committee Notes
99/04/DP Plot 20, Kiel Canal Road, Stanley Detailed plans for creation of container park including hard-standing area Mr P J McKay APPROVED
140/04/DP 30 Ross Road East, Stanley Detailed plans for erection of conservatory and extension to dwelling Mr & Mrs R Biggs APPROVED
01/05/PB The Old Telephone Exchange, Ross Road, Stanley Retrospective change of use from EOD offices to drop-in centre " The Place " Committee APPROVED
02/05/PB 19 Lookout Industrial Estate, Stanley Erection of storage shed Mr J East APPROVED
03/05/PB 27 Callaghan Road, Stanley Erection of glasshouse Mr R C Goodwin APPROVED
04/05/PB 6 Gleadell Close, Stanley Erection of pair of semi-detached dwellings Mr C Hawksworth & Mr & Mrs I Doherty. APPROVED
Energise Sign: Deferred, 5 Kent Road: Hold
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Family to Follow in Explorer's Antarctic Footsteps
By PA Reporter
Fri 4 Feb 2005
The son and grandson of Antarctic explorer Sir Vivian Fuchs are taking part in an expedition to the desolate spot where he was marooned for two years.
Fuchs became famous for leading, with Sir Edmund Hillary, the first land crossing of Antarctica in 1958.
A decade earlier he and 10 other scientists got stuck at a research base called Stonington Island and were known as the “lost 11” before eventually being rescued in 1950.
His son, Peter Fuchs, 64, and grandson, Edward Fuchs, 35, will leave South America for Stonington Island on an icebreaker with the British Antarctic Survey on February 6.
Peter Fuchs, a retired businessman from Leicestershire, said: “What happened to my father was that the sea literally froze over while he and his team were waiting for relief from their base.
“I remember it as being a tough time for my family, especially my mother, but we had to be prepared for such eventualities.”
Fuchs, whose successful crossing of the Antarctic continent was completed despite disagreements with Hillary, died in 1999.
His Times obituary called him a natural and instinctive leader who was “strong, austere and possessed thunderous eyebrows”.
MCMURDO RE-SUPPLIED:
Supplies have reached McMurdo Sound through a 100-mile long iceberg that has blocked the route to the station this season. USCG Polar Star, a Treasury Department Icebreaker, and a Russian Icebreaker escorted a USN Tanker through the ice to unload cargo.
ELLEN MACARTHUR:
Winds of 7kts this morning mean that Ellen MacArthur is in with a chance to make up the distance she lost due to low wind speeds last night. She has approximately 750 miles to go in her attempt to be the fastest circumnavigator of the world. She’s got until next Wednesday to break the record.
NORWEGIAN CROWN:
Norwegian Crown will after all visit Stanley. She was delayed by high winds and would have cancelled stopping in the Falklands all together but the passengers wanted to come to the Islands. She’ll be here from 0700 to 1400.
FIBS NEWS DIRECT: 04 FEBRUARY 2005
MARATHON:
There hasn’t been as much interest in next month’s Standard Chartered Bank Stanley Marathon as Manager and organiser, Nick Hutton had hoped. He says that although the deadline for entries is the 11th of March, they have asked for a good response by today to allow him to decide whether to go ahead with the event. He says there has only been two local applicants, one team and four overseas entrants, adding that this isn’t good, with a lower than anticipated local turn-out. With total prize money of nearly £5,000.00, covering 9 prizes, Nick urges anyone interested, who hasn’t yet done so, to get their entry in, as he will be making a decision this weekend whether to call the race off.
JANUARY WEATHER:
January was an unusually unsettled month, with rainfall higher than average and temperatures lower than expected. The highest temperature was 21.4C on the 11th, with the lowest of 2.1C on the 16th. There was only one night of ground frost. Rainfall was higher than average and there were only two completely dry days. Sunshine was lower than average with the most sun on the 9th at 12.5 hours. But, on the 21st, there was no sunshine at all. And, there were 6 days of gales and the highest gust of 59kts on the 21st.
PHOTOGRAPHER:
International wildlife photographer, Andy Rouse (AR), was in the Falklands for a two-week visit earlier this month. We (CB) asked him what brought him to the Falklands.
AR: Connie Stevens, the Tourism director here, arranged for me to come down on a PR visit. I write for lots of magazines in the UK. I hate the word, celebrity, because that’s an awful word, so I guess I am very well known in the photo press. Wherever I go, I get asked for autographs. I got asked for my autograph here when I got off the plane at MPA. There was a guy waiting for me. You do have some photographers on cruise ships and stuff but they don’t do much for the PR of the Falklands. Connie saw that this would be a good opportunity for me to photograph the wildlife of the Falklands because that’s the sort of thing she wants so that’s why it really came about. But also from the Military side they paid for it because I did some work for their conservation magazine.
KAYAKERS:
The two kayakers, Harry Haas (HH) and John Buhrman were able to carry on with their journey around East Falkland today. I (CB) spoke to Harry at lunchtime to see how they were doing.
HH: We are just a mile north of Motley Point.
CB: How much progress have you made today?
HH: We came about nearly 10 or 12 miles.
CB: Have you just stopped for a break now or is that it for the day?
HH: We are just finishing up lunch right now and we will see if we can push it up north a bit further and come over to Lively Island for Friday night.
CB: When are you expecting to be back in Stanley?
HH: Anywhere between next Tuesday and next Friday. If I had my guess I would say next Wednesday or next Thursday.
CB: Have you had any particularly interesting incidents to report today?
HH: Nothing in particular. We went around Bleaker Island yesterday afternoon and looked at a lot of the bird rookeries. We saw a bunch of Rockhoppers for the first time so that was pretty cool. The weather is just beautiful. The sun is out and it’s really nice now.
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