Category — Antarctic Connection

Kingston-based marine biologist Lyn Irvine, and Andy Townsend, a Hobart freelance photographer and computer programmer, produce bestselling calendars each year celebrating Tasmania’s Antarctic connection.

Here’s a gallery of their inspiring work.

In the bleak black of winter — days and nights — our Antarctic teams, at Casey, Mawson, Davis, and Macquarie Island, still found time to party and celebrate mid-winter and the gradual increase in day length, although even now they can barely measure it.

We thought we would share their party pix.

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In an era before air transport, the port of Hobart was the city’s ‘gateway to the world’ including Antarctic and sub-antarctic regions.

Waterman’s Dock was a hub of port activity from the mid-19th century for many decades. Here, goods and passengers ferried to and from larger vessels moored in the Derwent River were loaded and landed.

When the Dock was built in 1854, people, timber and food were being shipped every week out of Hobart to gold rushes in mainland Australia and California, so it quickly became a centre of city life.

Today it is a reminder of the city’s strong and enduring economic links with the Antarctic and Southern Ocean.

There’s more fascinating information about Tasmania’s Antarctic connection on the PolarPathways website.