Penguins, Huskies, Ships, Glaciers and Mountains
PAINTINGS of ANTARCTIC SCENES by Michael Skidmore
Welcome to my 2012 Web Site of representational scenes of Antarctica, its wild life, exploration and human occupation. Also stamp designs. To contact me, please E-mail: I hope you will enjoy your visit, Mike
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View a Gallery of :-
Paintings of Huskies NEW PAGE, Sept '11 Paintings of South Georgia and Scotia Sea area Paintings local to Halley Bay
Stamp Designs and First Day Covers sales
Never to Return
ss Terra Nova, departing Evans, 22nd January 1913
This painting wasauctioned at the 2012 BAS Club Annual Reunion to raise funds for the British Antarctic Monument Trust to place a Southern Monument in Port Stanley, Falkland Islands in honour of all those who went to the Antarctic and never returned.
Web Pages updated 12th July 2012
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Visit my gallery of UK paintings at www.mikes-paintings.co.uk and my wife's paintings and other work on www.artbysylvia.co.uk Do look up Christopher Bell, Artist and Illustrator, for some wonderful paintings www.otherworldillustrations.co.uk
Other useful links:
for literature on polar regions www.polarbooks.net BAS, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK www.antarctica.ac.uk SPRI, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, UK www.spri.cam.ac.uk BAS Club, British Antarctic Survey Club, Cambridge, UK www.antarctica.ac.uk/basclub Base Z, (Halley Station, formerly Halley Bay), www.zfids.org.uk Cool Antarctica www.coolantarctica.com Maps of Antarctica www.antarctica.ac.uk/apc/namemap.htm Polar Artists and Writers www.polarlink.org/ South Georgia Heritage Trust
www.sght.org SS Great Britain Trust www.ssgreatbritain.org/history.