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Thursday, December 15, 2011

Just a test post , its been so long since I've done this !!

Thursday, January 31, 2008

Early Morning at the Skiway
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WILKINS INTERNATIONAL RUNWAY
ON FINAL APPROACH
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Cutting slots into the ice to allow for the instalation of anchors for an Auotmatic weater station for the Skiway.
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Winding up the season !! digging our way into the conatiners towards the end of the season wasnt such an issue as the last 7 weeks have been Blizz free.



We moved 55 drums of fuel to Wilkins Runway for fueling the Casa 212's ferry tanks .The Sliver Chalet , ( rear of picci became the pilots sleeping quarters prior to the 11 hour flight.
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Sunday, December 23, 2007

One of our CASA 212's comming in to the Skiway


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Saturday, December 22, 2007















A hunting leopard seal has these two Adelies in a bit of a spin. After a while watching , the seal missed out on his meal.
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Looking out the Jump door , is amazing . The pilots crack the door about 12 inches , and we are rewarded with a view like this !!
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Thursday, December 20, 2007


A self portrait up on the Plateau.
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007

A sight a long time comming , a commercial airliner taking off from Casey Station. (Wilkins Runway )


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Heres Jason doing his best Fred Flinstone Impersonation. He's actually doing work to the avionics of the CASA212.
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Heres a shot from Davis station. One of my friends Brad Dennis who was here last winter has gone to Davis for the summer. He took this pearler of two fighting seals.
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Sunday, December 09, 2007











An Australian Milestone, the first Airbus to land in Antarctica.This will start a new era in Aussi Antarctic expeditions. With passengers being able to fly down ,in 5 hours instead of the 7-13 day voyage by ship.
The A-319 airbus landed last night at Wilkins Blue ice runway with no problems.
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A shot of the Bunger Hills from the air.
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Sitting down behaving myself !! As you can see the plane's interior is spartan. The drums tied down beside me is the fuel we cached at Bunger Hills.
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Locked in Bergs.From 5000ft
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Casa 212 on the ice at Bunger Hills.
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Heres the scar Ive put on our earth , the skiway. I got on a flight 2 hours west of here to a spot called Bunger Hills. Its a deep field Australian base. We cached some fuel out there and returned some old stock of Aviation fuel.
Its a bizzare sensation , flying along with nothing but ice and snow , then over the horizon some rocks appear , which is an area of some 4o miles square of mountians and frozen lakes.
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Thursday, December 06, 2007

AS you can see the weather forcaster was spot on , as the sun popped out under the clouds , the definition improved and the planes popped out of the sky. They landed at a bit after 10 pm. A long day , as the call went out at 2pm that they were going to fly . We start work at about 8am , so a sleep in was the order of the next day.
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Finally , a weather window opened up and we have now recieved our Casa 212-400 on station
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Saturday, December 01, 2007


This is a sunlight recorder.when the sun is shining, It refracts the light and burns a hole though the paper. Thus giving an accurate count of hours of sunlight.

Monday, November 26, 2007


Looking down into the Shirley Channel. Been doing a few trips here while we can, as the sea ice will soon be gone.
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Sunday, November 25, 2007



Snow Petrels on Reeve hill.

Thursday, November 22, 2007

A young Elephant seal. They dont usually spend to much time in this area , their wallow being down on the Browning Peninsula. A bonus !
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Another Adelie at Shirley Island. With still no planes arriving, our evenings can be spent exploring the recreation area.
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