Polar diary: Antarctic ships reach 200km milestone

Just over a week from their launch near South Georgia, two replica ships created by Turriff brother's Ollie and Harry Ferguson have already travelled over 200km as part of their epic scientific journey.

The Erebus and Terror ships are undertaking what is hoped to be a five year odyssey, sending back data on water pH, and temperature as well as data on currents.

UK data specialists Icoteq have created a live feed as the information comes in which includes a map showing the route being taken by the unpowered vessels.

One of the highlights has been the first image from the boats, which could be a world first as Craig Rackstraw or Bath based Icoteq explained: "The last pixel of the first camera image taken from Erebus in the Southern Ocean arrived on Friday.

"It only took nine days to send this image over the ARGOS satellite network, and we're not aware of anyone else that has achieved this from a small autonomous tracker deployed in the wild."

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