Tom Griffiths was on board the Aurora Australis as it sailed south to Commonwealth Bay, Antarctica, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Douglas Mawsonâ€...
18 January 2012
Last night – the eve of our departure from Antarctica– we had a commemorative re-enactment of a night in Mawson’s Hut. The ten men wh...
17 January 2012
On this day a hundred years ago, Robert Falcon Scott, Edward Wilson, ‘Birdie’ Bowers, Edgar Evans and Captain Lawrence Oates arrived seco...
16 January 2012
The cloud lifted and the white cliffs of East Antarctic asparkled in the sunlight. The fleck of rock that is Cape Denison beckoned us ashor...
15 January 2012
At 2 am the wind dropped and after waiting a short time … called all hands and started work, sounding the steam whistle as a sign to the sh...
14 January 2012
I began this blog with a reflection on the history of waiting in Antarctica and the strange contours of time down here. As you voyage south, ...
13 January 2012
We are in the home of the blizzard praying for wind.
The Aurora Australis is ‘parked’ (as our Voyage Leader puts it) in the edge of th...
12 January 2012
This day a hundred years ago, the expeditioners of the AAE spent their first night sleeping ashore. I find that moment as moving and meanin...
11 January 2012
This morning we are sailing where no-one has ever sailed before.
The Aurora Australis is in open water where, until February 2010, the gia...
