Summer in the Antarctic

[dbeyat45]

Heavy ice delays Australian Antarctic icebreaker Aurora Australis

Sea ice is at record levels heading into the Southern Hemisphere Summer


Photo: The Antarctic Division says the ship's crew
has plenty of supplies. (File photo) (Australian
Antarctic Division)

The ship's progress - now out of the ice and on her way back to Hobart - can be followed here if interested:
https://secure3.aad.gov.au/proms/public/schedules/voyage_sitreps.cfm?season=1314&voyage_no=1

Also if interested, this is the South Pole Station Webcam (offline in SH winter)

http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/webdata/spo/webcam/cmdlfullsize.jpg

 

[Diwundrin]

Thanks DB, just spent some time looking around that S Pole base. I have a moth to candle, lemming to cliff kind of fascination with Antarctica. Can't get enough of it, and it can't wait to kill me if I ever got silly enough to go and look at it close up.

 

[dbeyat45]

Thanks DB, just spent some time looking around that S Pole base. I have a moth to candle, lemming to cliff kind of fascination with Antarctica. Can't get enough of it, and it can't wait to kill me if I ever got silly enough to go and look at it close up.

Don't go on a tourist flight with Air New Zealand then .....

 

[Diwundrin]

.... funny you should mention that, it was uppermost in my mind, there was a time I was toying with taking one of those trips.