10 January 2012
We have just met the first emissaries of the great continent of ice! I did not win the sweep: they hove into sight out of the mist at 8.04 ...
9 January 2012
12 noon, 58.4º S 145.4º E
It is said that Australians will bet on anything, and so – as is traditional in Australian Antarctic voyaging...
8 January 2012
We have just crossed what is perhaps the longest and most significant biological boundary on Earth, the Antarctic convergence, where cold Anta...
7 January 2012
We are happily in ‘the albatross latitudes’. In the roaring forties and furious fifties, the winds of the Southern Ocean are the playthi...
6 January 2012
The Aurora Australis departed Hobart about midnight and now our tiny, orange ship is in the middle of a vast, blue, restless ocean. We are a...
5 January 2012
The Aurora Australis arrived safely back in port, and now the ship is almost ready to head south again. We embark this afternoon and depart ...
2 January 2012
It seems entirely appropriate that Antarctica itself should dictate the timing of the centennial visit to Mawson’s Huts. Aurora Australis,...
