The words ‘Antarctic science’ are often synonymous with dramatic, sublime images of penguins and frozen landscapes, but not all Antarctic science looks to the ice or its megafauna. While Antarctica is an important focus of scientific research in its own right, it is also a platform ideally suited to the pursuit of geophysical science—such as solar–terrestrial physics. Investigating the histories of these fields of science contributes not only to our understanding of the history of Antarctic science, but also to the evolution of Antarctic research stations as sites entangled in international networks of people and places beyond Earth's coldest continent. This paper presents the case of Halley VI research station, a British Antarctic Survey station on the Brunt Ice Shelf in East Antarctica, and its co-evolution with geospace science throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Halley's infrastructure and science shaped, and were shaped by, the evolution of geospace science in this period, via Halley's involvement in a series of international geospace collaborations. This co-evolution also affected how the British Antarctic Survey was able to respond to changing UK science policies in later decades. This case demonstrates that Antarctic stations, while physically remote, have historically been entangled in complex networks of people, politics and science that range far beyond Antarctica itself.

“南极科学”一词通常是企鹅和冰冻景观的戏剧性、崇高图像的代名词，但并非所有南极科学都关注冰或其巨型动物群。虽然南极洲本身就是科学研究的一个重要焦点，但它也是一个非常适合追求地球物理科学（例如日地物理学）的平台。研究这些科学领域的历史不仅有助于我们了解南极科学的历史，而且有助于南极研究站作为与国际人类网络和地球最冷大陆以外的地方纠缠在一起的站点的演变。本文介绍了哈雷六号研究站（位于东南极洲布伦特冰架上的英国南极调查站）的案例，及其在 20 世纪 70 年代和 1980 年代与地球空间科学的共同演化。通过哈雷参与的一系列国际地球空间合作，哈雷的基础设施和科学塑造了这一时期地球空间科学的发展，也受到了地球空间科学发展的影响。这种共同进化也影响了英国南极调查局在以后几十年中如何应对不断变化的英国科学政策。这个案例表明，南极站虽然物理位置偏远，但历史上一直与复杂的人员、政治和科学网络纠缠在一起，其范围远远超出了南极洲本身。