Emergency landing in Antartica
The Australian government’s Antarctic Division (AAD) said a pilot and two passengers were hurt when their Squirrel helicopter came down 150 nautical miles from Davis Station on Sunday night as it retu
The Australian government’s Antarctic Division (AAD) said a pilot and two passengers were hurt when their Squirrel helicopter came down 150 nautical miles from Davis Station on Sunday night as it returned from a penguin colony surveillance mission near the Amery ice shelf.
Two Australian helicopter crews were stranded in remote Antarctica awaiting rescue Monday, three of the group with “serious” injuries, after a chopper crash in unforgiving, icy terrain.
Australian Antarctic Division
New research showing that ‘supercooled’ Southern Ocean clouds are different from any others on Earth, promises to improve climate and weather forecasting models.
It also raises tantalising questions about how microscopic life in the Southern Ocean affects Antarctic climate and weather.
The monkey (top) deck of Aurora Australis was fitted out with 64 instruments to measure cloud, aerosol, precipitation and radiation properties during summer 2017-18. Photo: Doug Thost
The findings come after an international team conducted four major field campaigns between 2016 and 2018 to measure clouds, aerosols (fine particles), precipitation (rainfall and snowfall), and the state of the atmosphere over the Southern Ocean, from ships, aircraft and a sub-Antarctic island.
Ice to be back: Freo arrival on fire-struck ship marks end to pandemic isolation for Antarctic crew
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David Knoff survived an extended expedition to Antarctica and a fire at sea but setting foot in Fremantle Port this week he says he is just worried about whether he will get shouted down at the supermarket for not being familiar with COVID-19 protocols.
The outgoing team leader at Davis Station and 71 other returning expeditioners spent up to 535 days in the Australian Antarctic Territory where they experienced the global pandemic as isolated observers.
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