* British Services Antarctic Expedition 2012

The islands are located from the Isla de los Estados in Argentina ( and from the Argentine mainland ); from Chile ; west of the Shag Rocks ( South Georgia ) and north of the British Antarctic Territory ( which overlaps with the Argentine and Chilean claims to Antarctica in that region ).

The British Antarctic Survey operates a transcontinental air link between Port Stanley Airport and the Rothera Research Station on the Antarctic Peninsula and servicing also other British bases in the British Antarctic Territory using a de Havilland Canada Dash 7.

Then, in 1985, British Antarctic Survey scientists Farman, Gardiner and Shanklin published results of abnormally low ozone concentrations above Halley Bay near the South Pole.

The British National Antarctic Expedition, later known as the Discovery Expedition, was a joint enterprise of the RGS and the Royal Society.

In the following years he continued to express the British preference for man-hauling ( the practice of propelling sledges by manpower, unassisted by animals ), a view he maintained until very late in his Antarctic career.

In December he was released on half-pay, to take up the full-time command of the British Antarctic Expedition 1910, to be known as the Terra Nova Expedition from its ship, Terra Nova.

* British Services Antarctic Expedition 2012 – In the Spirit of Scott

There is no native population on the islands ; the present inhabitants are the British Government Officer, Deputy Postmaster, scientists, and support staff from the British Antarctic Survey who maintain scientific bases at Bird Island and at the capital, King Edward Point, as well as museum staff at nearby Grytviken.

The base at King Edward Point was expanded as a research facility in 1949 / 1950 by the British Antarctic Survey, which until 1962 was called the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey.

The King Edward Point base, which had become a small military garrison after the Falklands war, returned to civilian use in 2001 and is now operated by the British Antarctic Survey.

* February 11 – Burgess Ice Rise lying off the west coast of Alexander Island, Antarctica is first mapped by the British Antarctic Survey ( BAS ).

* May 16 – Scientists of the British Antarctic Survey announce discovery of the ozone hole .< ref >

Nevertheless, in February 1907 Shackleton presented his plans for an Antarctic expedition to the Royal Geographic Society, the details of which, under the name British Antarctic Expedition, were published in the Royal Society's newsletter, Geographic Journal.

This claim overlaps the British and Chilean claims, though all territorial claims in Antarctica are currently suspended ( although not abandoned ) under the Antarctic Treaty System.

In 2005, Russia produced almost one-fifth of the global diamond output, reports the British Geological Survey.

The Survey sent him to Europe five times, first in 1871 as part of a group sent to observe a solar eclipse ; there, he sought out Augustus De Morgan, William Stanley Jevons, and William Kingdon Clifford, British mathematicians and logicians whose turn of mind resembled his own.

British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottinghamshire.

Greenland is believed by some geologists to have some of the world ’ s largest remaining oil resources: in 2001, the U. S. Geological Survey found that the waters off north-eastern Greenland ( north and south of the arctic circle ) could contain up to of oil and, in 2010, the British petrochemical company Cairns Oil reported " the first firm indications " of commercially viable oil deposits.

To see the approximate proportion of women whose primary birth attendant was a midwife in British Columbia see, " What Mothers Say: The Canadian Maternity Experiences Survey.

Many national surveying projects have been carried out by the military, such as the British Ordnance Survey ( now a civilian government agency internationally renowned for its comprehensively detailed work ).

The British Geological Survey reported that as of 2005, Kodarma district in Jharkhand state in India had the largest deposits of mica in the world.

* British Crime Survey

* The British Geological Survey is founded as the world's first national geological survey.

* British Geological Survey landslides site

* British Geological Survey National Landslide Database

* British metaphysics as reflected in Robert Broom's evolutionary theory, translation of an article by Václav Petr published in Bulletin of the Czech Geological Survey, 75 ( 1 ): 73-85.

Johnson was reprimanded by the British Government and resigned from the Survey.

* Earthwise Issue 14, Landslides and tourist development-The slow slide of eastern Barbados into the sea, British Geological Survey

The British Army maintains the use of the mechanically simple 2. 5-litre four-cylinder 300TDi-engined versions rather than the electronically controlled 2. 5-litre five-cylinder TD5 to retain some servicing simplicity.

The current electoral system based on the Westminster system, was devised by the British and incorporates what is commonly known as " Best losers ", which maintains ethnic representation of MPs in the legislative assembly.

( born 1 June 1935 ) is a British architect whose company maintains an international design practice, Foster + Partners.

As it was used by British Rail, the single operator before franchising, its use also maintains continuity and public familiarity ; and it avoids the need to replace signage.

Oman maintains a small but professional and effective military, supplied mainly with British equipment in addition to items from the United States, France, and other countries.

United Kingdom maintains a high profile in the region to date ; in 2006 alone, over 1 million British nationals visited Dubai.

In addition to this the University was a founding member of the Western Canadian Universities Marine Sciences Society, UVic maintains this field station on the west coast of Vancouver Island, which is jointly run by the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, the University of Alberta and the University of Calgary.

The Senate maintains the ability similar to that held by the British House of Lords, prior to the enactment of the Parliament Act 1911, to block supply against the government of the day.

" British poet and musician Steve Scott, who worked closely with Norman at Solid Rock, maintains:

Don Stevenson, who has rejoined Moby Grape for occasional performances, has developed business interests outside of the music industry, including time share sales of recreational property in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, where he maintains a residence.

The ' English School ' of international relations theory, also known as International Society, Liberal Realism, Rationalism or the British institutionalists, maintains that there is a ' society of states ' at the international level, despite the condition of ' anarchy ' ( literally the lack of a ruler or world state ).

Finally, appealing to British patriotism, she maintains that the French cannot be allowed to outstrip the English in liberty.

The British Army maintains an adventure training establishment on the island, allowing members of the British Forces stationed at the nearby British Army Training and Support Unit Belize ( BATSUB ) and their families a chance to take part in such activities as diving and sailing.

As of 2008 British Airways maintains offices in the Bulova building.

BUS maintains strong links with other Baptists in the British Isles, notably the Baptist Union of Great Britain ( which despite the name is the association of Baptist churches in England and parts of Wales ), the Baptist Union of Wales, the Irish Baptist Networks and BMS World Mission.

Commercial-free programming will include classic and blockbuster movies, travel, science, and drama programs, British sitcoms and news programs, as the station maintains their relationship with program syndicators American Public Television and NETA, among others, which allow non-PBS stations to air their programming.

The Union maintains membership with ecumenical organisations such as Churches Together in England, Churches Together in Britain and Ireland, the Conference of European Churches, and the World Council of Churches, and Baptist organisations such as the Fellowship of British Baptists, the European Baptist Federation, and the Baptist World Alliance.

British Transport Police maintains a neighbourhood policing presence at Lewisham.

British Waterways maintains a gravel shoal immediately upstream of the marina entrance past Llangollen Wharf.

If there was any justification for this departure from convention, it lay in the fact that most people previously appointed to the position already held a formal title – such as a British knighthood or peerage, or a military rank – whereas Hollingworth's previous style, " The Most Reverend ", derived from his former position as the Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane and was considered inappropriate for a person holding an official position in a country which maintains a formal separation between church and state.

British Transport Police maintains a presence at Cardiff Central.

British historian Henry Kamen maintains that the Spanish did not have the ability to properly explore the Pacific Ocean, and were not capable of finding the islands which lay at a latitude 20 ° north of the galleon route and their currents.