Press Release - Baffin Island Expedition 2010

Baffin Island Expedition 2010 – School Outreach Expedition

Baffin Island Expedition 2010 proposal.pdf

This August, Antony Jinman, will lead a team of nine graduates to Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic; exploring the Auyuittuq National Park (The Land that Never Melts), the Penny Ice Cap and living with the Inuit People.

This will be an expedition in its rawest form, exploring new areas and overcoming many hardships and difficulties, including unpredictable weather, surging rivers, crevassed glaciers and polar bears against a back drop of stunning mountains and scenery.

The purpose is to help continue Arctic Explorer – Antony Jinman’s school outreach work, heightening awareness within schools of issues facing the Polar Regions, especially climate change. This ongoing work will be entering its fourth year of visiting the region and has been supported by the Royal Geographic Society, Winston Churchill Memorial Trust and the University of Plymouth as well as being a participating project of the International Polar Year.

Team members will be able to witness firsthand the arctic environment and apply their specialist areas of interest and study to develop resources for the classroom. Helping to develop not just their own personal careers but also helping to educate and inspire our next generation.

The Expedition Phase of this project will see the team exploring the interior of Baffin Island, an island two and a half times the size of the UK but with a population of just 25,000. Through logging GPS locations of photographs and film footage, a virtual expedition will be developed upon return so that students of all ages will be able to explore an area of the world that few people have ever been to.

This expedition will be interactive and invites you to follow their expedition via the website www.educationthroughexpeditions.org

“What you’re setting out to do is both exciting and inspirational. You’ll gain amazing life experience and be bringing back something that will benefit others for years. There are bound to be tough times but I promise they’ll turn out to be the best stories in years to come. Good luck! Helen”

Helen Skelton – BBC Blue Peter Presenter

For more information about the expedition please visit;

www.baffinisland.moonfruit.com

www.educationthroughexpeditions.org

Can also contact Antony Jinman (Founder of Education Through Expeditions) on;
01752 588347 or email infor@educationthroughexpeditions.org

Education Through Expeditions is a not-for-profit, Community Interest Company which aims to provide educators with current and innovative distance-learning resources to support climate change education. Through encouraging the exploration and understanding of different habitats around the world, Education Through Expeditions aims to help educate children about their global environment.

I have learnt through a colleague of your work on education and climate change through expeditions. May I take this opportunity to congratulate you on your innovative approach to education and to encourage you in your aim to inspire and educate children globally about climate change.
I wish you well. Warmly and with a smile,
Vernor Muñoz
Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education
Human Rights Council
United Nations

Posted 12 July 2010