Antarctic Newspaper

[DeepFreeze]

For those that are interested in what goes on in Antarctica during the austral winter months here is a link to our newspaper.

Antarctic Sun

[warpedx]

And here I thought it was just an ice cube. What exactly is you job down there?

[DeepFreeze]

I am an air traffic manager. I manage the air traffic controllers and get to deal with the politics and paperwork involved with air traffic control. At least I get to control planes occasionally, when I am not stuck in the office.

[Junkie]

How much air traffic can there be at the frozen tundra?

[deadeye]

I thought ‘hot AIR’ traffic was Deep’s forte’ and here he is in the cold.

and to think we still have not seen any pics.

[warpedx]

So there's not much traffic during the winter then. Just a bunch of supply planes in the months leading up to it?
What's your record heat wave? Or not so cold wave?

[Pumpster]

I have asked him that question before and i think he responce was he deals with all planes flying further south that new zealand (sp?) He said about 150ish flights a day.

[DeepFreeze]

Last season we had around 14000 flights from August until the end of February. The record heat in McMurdo was set a couple of years ago. We got up to 51 degrees on New Year's day.