The British Antarctic Survey's new research station, Halley VI, becomes fully operational this month. Aviemore-based climber and documentary-maker, Kirk Watson, filmed and photographed its construction

The new station for the Cambridgeshire-based survey organisation replaces the 20-year-old Halley V and is the sixth to be built on Antarctica's Brunt Ice Shelf

The region is important to the research of Earth's magnetic field and near-space atmosphere

An aerial view of Halley VI during the £25.8m construction project

The station has been designed to withstand extreme winter weather

The ship James Clark Ross picked up Mr Watson and other Halley VI contractors after five months in a frozen landscape