Making a window on Antarctica

It’s only been a few days that we have been here and already we have slipped into routines. A wonderful breakfast of porridge with tinned fruit cocktail or yesterday’s special of chocolate porridge and pears starts the day off. Then it is off for the day’s work.

Now that we have a sustainable (fingers crossed) source of clean energy, our next challenge is to wire up the weather station and webcam, so that we can broadcast live video and weather data to the 2041 website 365 days a year.

Education has been a big focus for the team this year, whether it’s been Russ with his handy tips on energy conservation or Justin chatting up penguins or manfully stripping down to his thermals on a glacier, just so pupils can gain an insight into some of the lessons we can learn from this amazing continent.

If we can get the weather station and webcam hooked up to the internet, it will mean that there is a source of education about the Antarctic climate available year round. There won’t be the Iwo Jima heroics of getting the first turbine up this year, but there will definitely be cheers around the E-Base if we can provide a window on this amazing place.