The paved runway was to be built near the Australian Davis station. Apart from a misguided investment of 19 million AUS dollars, nothing is left of the original plan. (Photo: AAD / Andrew Garner) Australia’s government had hoped that a paved runway near its...
The new ice shelf-ocean model estimates the shape of cavities beneath ice shelves to improve modelling of ocean-ice interactions that cause melting beneath the ice shelf. Photo: Pete Harmsen A new Antarctic ice shelf-ocean model is revolutionizing predictions of...
Mawson Station, one of the Australian Antarctic Division’s bases on the frozen continent, will operate with reduced personnel during the 2023/24 austral summer. (Photo: AAD) Major scientific projects, including work to study the decline of sea ice around...
Regional Express (REX) was established in 2002 when Hazelton Airlines and Kendell Airlines were purchased by the Australiawide Airlines Consortium, which was formed by Ansett Australia, an airline that had gone bankrupt shortly before. Following the merger of the two...
Anton Steketee (left), Sean Chua, and Dr. Petra Heil developed NILAS, the new Southern Ocean mapping platform. Photo: Wendy Pyper What is the typical sea ice concentration east of the Antarctic Peninsula in February, or what was the chlorophyll concentration in the...