Grants awarded: 1997

The following grants were awarded:

Svalbard Polar Dawn	To make ascents of peaks in eastern central Spitsbergen as part of a Nordic ski tour in polar conditions.	£800
British Territorial Army Medical Services Expedition to Greenland '97	To make first and second ascents of selected peaks in NE area of Kronprins Frederik Bjerge, and to make third British ascent of Mont Forel.	£800
Aberdeen University East Greenland Project	To produce detailed geological maps of northern Clavering Island, and to collect rock specimens.	£1200
Arctic Wintering: Kap Tobin	To collect snow samples and undertake an Arctic wintering.	£500
Queen's University Belfast, Øksfjordjokelen Expedition '97	To collect data about structure, rheology and thermo-dynamics of Øksfjordjokelen, a remote plateau icefield in northern Norway.	£1500
Trans-Spitsbergren Epedition	To ski unaided to the northernmost point of the island, returning by the same route.	£500
Friends of the Innu, UK	To assess the feasibility of co-operative alternative development projects, proposed by the Innu of Labrador.	£500
Oxford University, Svalbard '97	To set-up a glacial temperature-ablation study.	£800