A Glasgow man has been describing spending the joys of Christmas working in the remote icefields of Antarctica.
The southern continent is one of the harshest and most difficult places to survive, and is home to the British Antarctic Survey Halley VI Research station – which sits on the 150km-thick Brunt Ice Shelf.
This station is a live-in lab and was the place that discovered a hole in the ozone layer in 1985, which propelled the profile of the environmental movement in the 80s.
Jack Gordon has worked at Halley as a general assistant for more than 10 years and he takes care of the day-to-day.
There are 33 people on the base spending Christmas with Jack, living and working on the permanently floating ice shelf.
At Halley typical winter temperatures are below -20C with extreme lows of about -55C. There is 24-hour darkness for 105 days per year.
Video by Danielle Fleming.
