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Contemporary Connections Antarctic Midwinter Festival
The Antarctic Midwinter Festival is run over the mid-winter solstice period during June in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. This festival celebrates the link Tasmania has with the Antarctic and the Southern Ocean regions by encouraging Tasmanians and visitors to celebrate winter and learn more about the fascinating Antarctic island continent, which is almost twice the size of Australia. - top - State Antarctic, Sub-Antarctic and Southern Ocean Policy
The Tasmanian Government’s vision for participating in the growth of the state’s Antarctic community over the next three years is articulated in the 2004 State Antarctic, sub-Antarctic and Southern Ocean Policy. - top - Antarctic Tasmania
Antarctic Tasmania is a Tasmanian Government initiative within the Department of Economic Development. This office is located at Salamanca Square, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. The key function of Antarctic Tasmania is to enhance Tasmania's role as a port-of-call and supplier of goods and services for people engaged in activities associated with the Antarctic and the Southern Ocean. - top - Polar Pathways
Polar Pathways is a walk experience that explores Tasmania’s Antarctic connections. It is a guide to some of Hobart’s and southern Tasmania’s unique Antarctic and Southern Ocean sites. - top - Sub-Antarctic Plant House
The sub-Antarctic Plant House is one of the most exciting and unusual collections of sub-Antarctic plants. It is based at the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia and it is nestled inside a small, specially constructed building. There’s no other collection like it anywhere in the world. Here, plants from the sub-Antarctic islands (located in high southern latitudes) are displayed in a climatically-controlled environment, where chilly fogs and mists mirror the wet, cold conditions of their island homes. - top - Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
This site provides detailing regarding current and upcoming exhibitions as well as opening hours and other administrative details. The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery will be opening a dedicated Antarctic Gallery in early 2006. - top - Maritime Museum of Tasmania
Tasmania’s rich maritime heritage is reflected in the Museum’s collection where historic items, paintings and ships models combine with interesting display panels to unfold a series of fascinating stories.
- top - Historical Connections Aurora Leaving Hobart 2nd December 1911
The vessel, “S.Y. Aurora” was purchased by Douglas Mawson in 1910 as his expedition ship for the Australasian Antarctic Expedition that left Hobart for Antarctica on the 2nd of December 1911. - top - History of Sealing on Macquarie Island
A history of sealing at Macquarie Island is an internet webpage based at the Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service. In Australasian waters the sealing industry commenced in Bass Strait in 1798 and rapidly spread to Tasmania and along the southern coasts of the mainland as far as Western Australia. The industry was largely carried out by Sydney-based gangs, and the shipment of seal skins and oil to China became the first viable export from the new colony. By 1810 the Bass Strait industry had largely collapsed and the Sydney, and Hobart, sealing vessels were exploring and working further afield towards New Zealand and its southern islands. - top - Roald Amundsen
Polar explorer, Roald Amundsen, was the leader of the first expedition to reach the South Pole. - top - Australian Antarctic Exploration and Research
Records relating to Antarctic exploration and research are principally held by the National Archives of Australia in Canberra and Hobart. These include records of Antarctic agencies, such as the Australian Antarctic Division, or agencies that have continued to have a role in Antarctic policy issues or in operational support to the Division. Examples of some of the most significant records are listed on the Web site. - top - Polar Pathways
The Polar Pathway website provides a virtual walking and driving tour of Hobart's significant historic Antarctic sites. - top - Mawsons Huts Foundation
The Mawson's Huts Foundation has been established to conserve in perpetuity for the Australian people the unique historical buildings known as Mawson's Huts, base of one of the most significant expeditions in Antarctic history. - top - Antarctic Airlink Developments How do you build an Antarctic runway ? - 8 February 2006
How do you build a runway in Antarctica, many kilometres from the nearest station, with construction materials of ice and snow?
AAD staff are exercising their ingenuity and expertise to construct a blue ice runway topped with a snow pavement high on the inland plateau, 75 km from Casey. - top - |