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Peter Watson

Adventure travel writer, founder of Atlas & Boots, and Communications Officer at UK Antarctic Heritage Trust; author of Counting Penguins about counting penguins at Port Lockroy, Antarctica.

Oct 10, 2026

12:33
You got the nature, but you didn't get the other two, did you?
12:36
Yeah, it's a bit of a background into the UK.
12:39
It's a British based charity and it looks after former British bases down in Antarctica.
12:45
But there are six of those.
12:46
So these are all British bases that were founded in the mid 40s through to the 60s, but were abandoned or are no longer used.
12:54
So their former bases, most of them stopped being used in the 60s and one in the mid 70s.
13:00
And so they now look after six of them, their heritage sites.

9 MINS LATER

21:33
And I guess yourself, having traveled to so many countries, you've seen so many different things, but when you're put in a small space, it really hones you into what is important and meaningful to you and taking that forward.

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