Just some photos, videos and thoughts from my trip in Antarctica with the Australian Antarctic Division.
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Davis Station is the most southern of Australia’s Antarctic station, thankfully though with its location in the Vestfold Hills (the largest permanent ice free area on the continent) the weather is relatively mild. The coldest it has gotten so far this year is a balmy -32C, summer days typically hang around the low single digits and winter is typically somewhere around the -20C mark. Winds are generally low but will happily exceed 100km/h in a blizzard.
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What the hell are you doing down there?
Something I wonder as well, but for some reason I was able to convince the good people at AAD headquarters in Kingston Tasmania that I was a good fit for the Station Communications Technical Officer job. As the sole tech on station I get to look after our ANARESAT Sat Com – a 9 M/bps …
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