Category: Station Life

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Midwinter at Davis

Last Friday, 21st June we celebrated Midwinters – the biggest event on the Antarctic Calendar. For most of June and the start of July, the sun doesn’t rise this far south. Midwinters marks the...

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Davis by night

Last night (Saturday 30 March) like many around the world we observed Earth Hour, switching off the lights early for the night. Now that we’re coming into winter and have passed the equinox, we...

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Hello winter

We’re now almost a month into the winter season. The summer flew past super quickly and on Feb 18th the Aurora Australis departed with the summer expeditioners, as well as a few of the...

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The festive season

Christmas and New Years in Antarctica was a great experience shared with fine company, fine food and plenty of cheer. First thing I did after a leisurely sleep in was open my box of...