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Welcome to SPRI

Pole Day celebrations - 17-18 January 2012 On 17-18 January 2012 we celebrate the centenary of the first British team to reach the South Pole, with various public events taking place from mid January until 29 March. Make a flag for Pole Day These rough notes: Captain Scott's last expedition Scott 100 event calendar

Welcome to the website of the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI). The Institute is a well-known and long-established centre for research into both polar regions. It is part of the University of Cambridge and is a sub-department of the Department of Geography.

We have several research groups investigating a range of issues in both the environmental sciences and social sciences of relevance to the Arctic and Antarctica. Our polar library, which includes the Shackleton Memorial Library, has comprehensive holdings of scholarly books and journals on polar research, with exceptional archival collections from the exploration of the Antarctic and Arctic. We also have extensive online resources, including bibliographic and other information.

Around 60 academic, library and support staff, together with postgraduate students, associates and fellows attached to our research programmes, are working in the Institute, providing a strong core of intellectual activity focused on the Arctic and Antarctic and their adjacent seas.

We offer two Graduate Degree courses; a one-year Master's Degree (M.Phil.) course in Polar Studies, and a three-year Doctoral Degree course, leading to a Ph.D. degree. Both courses are closely tied to the research activities of the Institute.

	These rough notes: Captain Scott's last expedition The story of the Terra Nova expedition, explored through the letters, diaries and photographs of its members, is being told in a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition at the Polar Museum. Details of the exhibition BBC News: Scott of the Antarctic exhibition opens in Cambridge
	The Scott Polar Research Institute and the Times World Atlas (13th ed.) Map of Greenland SPRI scientists have been involved in discussions with HarperCollins during the production and review of a new insert to the Atlas, made public on 25th January 2012. We are pleased to have been able to contribute positively to this process, and that the end result of this controversy has been ultimately productive, leading to the publication by HarperCollins of a much improved map of the Greenland Ice Sheet.   Read more ...
	Freeze Frame is a remarkable resource enabling you to explore over 20,000 photographs from 1845-1960, representing some of the most important visual resources for research into British and international polar exploration. Go to the Freeze Frame website

The Institute also hosts the Secretariats of the International Glaciological Society and the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research.