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🗓️ 5 March 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Mark Stephen hears from Graham Gillie about his extraordinary working life in Antarctica
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0:42.5 | This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland. |
0:57.0 | To be honest, working down there is not a million miles away from working in Scotland. Really? |
0:58.0 | Yeah. |
0:59.0 | I mean, it's working in Scotland in the winter can be just as challenging as working down in Antarctica sometimes. |
1:06.0 | It's just that, the feel of the air and the smell. |
1:12.6 | You just get that feel all of a sudden you're back and it's, it just, it calls you back, I think. |
1:22.6 | Graham Gilly describing the pool of Antarctica. |
1:26.6 | Graeme's a conservation carpenter working for the UK Antarctic |
1:30.3 | Heritage Trust. He comes from a long line of join us in Edinburgh and first visited Antarctica in 2003. |
1:38.1 | Since then he's gone back to the region on several occasions working on maintaining the historic buildings there. |
1:44.3 | I'm Mark Stephen and in this edition of Scotland Outdoors, |
1:47.9 | I met up with Graham shortly before he undertook the long journey to Blakelock Island in Antarctica |
1:52.7 | to work on the refuge there, which was first built in the 1950s. |
1:57.4 | As you'll hear, these historic buildings are increasingly exposed to the ravages of the changing climate, which means that Graham's skills are very much in demand. |
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