APECS Oceania

APECS OCEANIA IN ANTARCTICA

Finally, all of us made it into Aurora Basin on Christmas day. It was less than 2 hrs 

flight with basler airplane. Field leader Sharon and Noel were waiting for us at skiway 

and took us to the camp.
In the ABN camp, we have 1 kitchen/living tent, 2 ice core drilling tent, 1 ice core 

process tent, 1 power and equipment (PE) tent, 2 toilet tent, 1 med tent, and 18 

sleeping tent. The camp is already in good shape that all tents are set up except 

process tent which will be my working place. We have only one heater in our camp named 

Toby. He is our best friend, he is hot and nice. He is always in the kitchen tent, 

working hard to keep us warm. PE tent is important tent. There are 3 generators, 

ice melter for making water, and shower! These generators provide all power in our 

camp. We use electricity for drilling, processing, analysing ice core, communication,

cooking and making water. The shower is not really proper shower but we can use hot 

water for washing ourselves occasionally which seldom happen.
After short break in cosy kitchen, we start setting up our ice core process tent to 

complete our camp setting. It was windy day that difficult to put all cover on frames.

We took 2 days to set up our all process equipment.
Meanwhile, we had to postpone Christmas until the 26th Dec. That was quite experience 

having a Christmas in middle of nowhere and it was completely white Christmas! We had 

nice dinner (Thank you, Jenny!), we had Santa Clause, we had gift, we had laugh, we had

very special good time.