Following Mawson's Cold Trail

摘要

"I was attacked by sea lions this morning," says Chris Turney by satellite phone from the Southern Ocean. It's all in a day's work for Turney, a climate scientist with the University of New South Wales in Australia, who boarded a Russian icebreaker heading south toward Antarctica on 27 November. Turney is leading a group of nearly 40 scientists and doctoral students and a handful of media representatives on the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE) 2013. The team will spend the month retracing the steps of Australian geologist Douglas Mawson's original 1911 to 1914 expedition over the frozen continent.