INSIDE LOOK: Antarctic expeditioners’ voyage to Mawson’s Hut

From getting up close and personal with penguins to run ins with seals, one reporter has given us an inside look into a conservation team’s latest expedition to the ‘windiest place on earth’. PHOTOS >>

From getting up close and personal with penguins to run ins with seals, one Mercury reporter has given us an inside look into a conservation team’s latest expedition to the ‘windiest place on earth’.

David Killick is part of the six-week expedition to one of Antarctica’s remotest outposts this summer.

The five-person Mawson’s Huts Foundation team are carrying out vital conservation works at Cape Denison, the home of the 1911-14 Australasian Antarctic Expedition led Australia’s greatest Antarctic explorer Sir Douglas Mawson.

The team has also conducted a count of the area’s Adelie penguin colonies and erected an automatic weather station while based at a remote field camp.

The expeditioners are expected to be retrieved by the French icebreaker L’Astrolabe in mid-January.

20+ PHOTOS: Mawson’s Hut expedition Summer 2021/22

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