New Antarctic Images
Antarctica is a difficult place to describe. When I spent 7-weeks living and working in a remote field camp in the Northern Prince Charles Mountains in 2003, I had days where I felt as if my colleague Duanne and I were the only people on the planet. During that trip we spent three weeks camped in an unnamed valley with our only contact to the outside world being a short daily radio call with Davis Station, some 600-kilometres away.
For us, time lost all relevance. Instead we adjusted to the weather patterns, which mainly meant working when it wasn’t too windy and resting when it was. Antarctica is an incredibly windy place and working outside in cold temperatures for 8-12 hours a day can be a challenge when the wind is really cranking.
I returned the following year, this time to the Framnes Mountains. The Framnes were totally different to the Prince Charles Mountains and fortunately, they were a bit more weather friendly.
Like the Prince Charles Mountains though, they were an other-worldly sort of place. The Framnes reminded me once again that Antarctica is a place far removed from the world that most of us know.
The images below are some selects from the Framnes Mountains, which are now available for licensing through Aurora Photos. Just double click on the image to license via Aurora Photos.
The bow of the Australian icebreaker, The Aurora Australis plunging into large ocean waves during a voyage to Antarctica, The Southern Ocean, on the 21 November 2004.
Pack ice and icebergs, Vestfold Hills, Princess Elizabeth Land, Antarctica, on the 1 December 2004.
Aerial view of Mawson Station, Framnes Mountains, Mac Robertson Land, Antarctica, on the 7 December 2004.
Andrew McPhee lowering an insturment into a hole in a frozen lake, which measures water temperature, water salinity and other chemical characteristics as part of an Australian sponsored project studying lake limnology, Hanging Lake, Henderson Massif, Framnes Mountains, Mac Robertson Land, Antarctica, on the 13 January 2005.
A man walking towards heavy equipment at an ice runway used for Australian Antarctic Division aircraft, North Masson Range, Framnes Mountains, Mac Robertson Land, Antarctica, on the 3 February 2005.
Scientists standing next to a Hagglund during a blizzard, Rumdoodle Hut, North Masson Range, Framnes Mountains, Mac Robertson Land, Antarctica, on the 3 January 2005.
A firefighter standing at the ready next to an ice runway used for Australian Antarctic Division aircraft, North Masson Range, Framnes Mountains, Mac Robertson Land, Antarctica, on the 3 February 2005. The distant range is David Range.
Andrew 'Blanket' McPhee photographing a mummified seal about 20-km from the ocean, South Masson Range, Framnes Mountains, Mac Robertson Land, Antarctica, on the 24 January 2005.
Aerial view of ice berg and sea ice near the Amery Ice Shelf, Prydz Bay, Antarctica, on the 3 February 2005.
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