Antarctica is not only a spectacularly beautiful place but it also holds the key to understanding Earth’s past climate and is crucial for understanding its future. It’s the driest, windiest, coldest, highest continent on Earth and holds 70% of the world’s freshwater, and yet it is classed as a desert! With ice up to 4770m thick, Antarctica has the longest continuous record of Earth’s changing climate and the waters surrounding Antarctica help regulate the temperature of the oceans all around the world.

Support from the City of Hobart will ensure the ever-popular Australian Antarctic Festival will have a new prominence internationally when it re-emerges from its Covid-mandated hiatus in August next year.

The Board of the Mawson’s Huts Foundation announced today that the founding Chairman David Jensen AM has resigned his position as a Director and Chair of the Foundation after 24 years service.

The Chairman of the Mawson’s Huts Foundation (MHF) David Jensen AM has announced that Greg Carter has been appointed CEO effective July 1.

Hobart’s connection to the Southern Ocean and Antarctica is easily understood by a short glance at a good map. The port city is one of the closest points to the Antarctic continent, especially for those exploring the vast reaches of East Antarctica, from the French territory of Adelie Land to the Weddell Sea.

Sponsored by a double handful of Antarctic organisations and administered by the University of Tasmania, here’s a chance for a young person (18-29 years) to take a sponsored trip to Antarctica to visit the Chilean Julio Escudero Antarctic Base on the Antarctic Peninsula.