On Christmas Day, 1975 about fifteen trained personnel had crossed the Southern Ocean and arrived at the Antarctic sea-ice edge to begin the coming year at Australia’s Mawson Base.
The account of the trip down in the Nella Dan, the magic of the ice edge, violent storms, the strange events on arrival and the initial settling in to our new routine are here related as Phil Wolter answers searching questions by Peter Niblett
On Christmas Day, 1975 about fifteen trained personnel had crossed the Southern Ocean and arrived at the Antarctic sea-ice edge to begin the coming year at Australia’s Mawson Base.
The account of the trip down in the Nella Dan, the magic of the ice edge, violent storms, the strange events on arrival and the initial settling in to our new routine are here related as Phil Wolter answers searching questions by Peter Niblett