The personal blog of an adventure to Antarctica to carry out a survey. Antarctica has always held a fascination for me, the extreme cold, the beautiful ice, magnificent mountains and stories of amazing exploration, but probably most of all – the extreme space and freedom.

In January I will be heading off to the interior of Antarctica to carry out a Geospatial survey of an area of blue ice glacier, identified as a potential runway for future operations.

Follow my story as I prepare and travel South.

 

Who Am I

Ian Stilgoe is the Vice President of GeoPositioning Europe at Topcon Positioning Group. A Chartered Surveyor and now international company executive, who at 13 was told at a school careers fair, “You can’t be a Chartered Surveyor, you’ll need better grades for that.”

“If you want it, why shouldn’t you do it?” was always my opinion!

That careers fair started me on a different path to how i am now. I dropped out of university after the first term studying electronics and computing thinking this is not for me. By chance got a job at Ordnance Survey as a field assistant as i liked the outdoor life, which lead to another go at university, but this time for a course I loved – Engineering Surveying at Nottingham Trent. It started a journey and a career I’ve lived and loved ever since.

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