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Imagine you have been sent to the Antarctica to work. What would you have to do to prepare for your journey? What training would you have to undertake? What clothing would you need? How would you get there? Where would you live and what food would you eat whilst there? Would food eaten on a field trip be different from food eaten whilst at the base? media type="youtube" key="OUDsK8ymavQ" height="414" width="518" **Introduction of Antarctica**



Antarctica was first sighted on 19th February 1819 by William Smith (mariner). What Smith saw was Livingstone Island which is part of Antarctica: The red dot is where Livingstone Island is and is where New Zealand owns part of it. Antarctica is also known as the southern hemisphere, and is also bigger than Europe and two times the size of Australia. -82.9 degrees celsius was one of Antarctica's most coldest days. The closest country to Antarctica is South America. It is also 14,000,000 km squared and it is very dangerous if you go very high in Antarctica on mountains or any landmarks, you wouldn't be able to breath properly because you are higher than sea level which is where you should be breathing. Lastly Antarctica is the windiest,coldest, place on Earth. Antarctica can neither be 24hours in complete darkness or 24hours of daylight. You can bring chocolate with you for eating you can eat alot because you lose alot of fat in Antarctica. And you can also eat canned food. More than 4,000 people from all around the world are working in Antarica at summer and less than 1,000 people work during winter in Antarctica.There are also scientist down Antarctica. But do you ever wander what scientist study there? Scientists study about wildlife and studies on how animals and plants survive to a changing environment such as Antarctica and the scientist also study about the Southern Ocean, glaciers and sea ice climate change through ice-core studies, the way fossils and rocks show the Antarctic history, meteorites, stars, the aurora, the ozone layer and hole and many more. In summer there are about more than a thousand people who work in Antarctica in in winter there are about 80 workers in Antarctica. The great thing about working in Antarctica is that you would be remembered and take a place in the Antarctic history. =__ What would you have to do to prepare for your journey? __= Going to Antarctica to work is by choice. If you're already employed and you have an Australian citizenship and you have a proper passport then you would be eligable to be accepted as one of the Antarctic expeditioner. Firstly, you would be thinking if you would want to go to Antarctica to work or not but if you do then you should be checking the AAD( Australian Antarctica Division) website. For applying a job for Antarctica you would go to the AAO( Antarctic Applications Online) where you would be making a new personal profile so later on, you would be emailed 8-10 weeks before your departure only if you got accepted to work for Antarctica, you would also receive a expeditioner handbook which every expeditioner must read so if you have any questions you can read this expeditioner handbook, this expeditioner handbook also tells you information on when you would be expeted for your pre-departure training in Kingston, Hobart and when you would be leaving for Antarctica and where you would be living when you're at Hobart while you're still training. When each expeditioner receives their expeditioner handbook each one of them would start reading it when they've finished and knows why they're going to Antarctica to work and how important it is. OR you would go online the AAD website and find the application form for applying a job for working in Antarctica.

Then after everything for applying a job in Antarctica and sigining up you would have to check if you have any bills or voting things or appointments are before your departure to Antarctica. You would be already packed your kitting things and clothing already by now. You would have a passport that is not going to expire wile you're at Antarctica. When you are applying a job and have been accepted to work for ANtarctica there is an Antarctica service code of personal behaviour which explains what you expectations are and your behaviour and your teamwork if you don't accept this then you wouldnt be eligible for working in Antarctica. You would now that some items are not prohibited in Antarctica which means that you are not allowed to bring it to Antarctica and if you do so then you would be sent back home and not work for Antarctica. The AAD are counting on expeditioners to help Antarctica which means you have a huge responsibility to help Antarctica. There is also an AAD drug and alcohol policy that expeditioners must obey, this working in Antarctica is meant to be safe place to work not for expedtioners slaggin around and no doing their job properly when they're drunk which means that expeditioners are not allowed do have alcohol or drugs, but for the drugs it depends on which type of drug you're taking if you taking panadol or something else the AAD will check what is inside the panodol package to check if it's really panadol. You would also take this exam before your departure, this exam is to check if you are and alcholic or a drug adicct. There is also an AAD service conditions which reminds you of what you need to do before your departure like your accomodation. You would also have to attend all of the pre-departure briefings which is compulsory while you're staying at Kinston ,Hobart. You also have to understand the cargo requirements. Your baggage would be checked by the AAD, or when you receive mail from your friends or your family it would also be checked. You also have some transport requirements and you would also have to read all the information on you health and your safety responibilities. You also have to participate in the expedionterperformance assesment. And most importantly you family and friends would already now how to keep in touch with you while you're away.

Australian Antarctic Division 203 Channel Hwy Kingston, Tasmania, Australia 7050 This address is where you would be sending your already signed forms. When you're at Hobart you would start your training but mostly this Antarctica training will take place in most of your weekends now that you are already and employed expeditioner you would start with your medical exams and other exams you must do. =__ What training would you have to undertake? __= The AAD says that you would have to do more than 14 days of predeparture training. Doing this training is to help with your knowledge and skills so you are prepared to go to Antarctica when you're also working there. Every expeditioner would receive an email telling them the details of the pre-departure training and what time it starts and when does it start. Then you would send an email back to the AAD saying that you are available to go on the time and the date of your training so they know that you can come if not they would change the date.

Field Training: This type of training is conducted by the FTO's (Field Training Officers) for a few weeks then it should be your time for going to Antarctica so this means that this is the last training session you would be doing. This field training is about living safely in the Antarctic and the subantarctic environment and survival skills. The expedxitioners would repeat their training over and over again until theybecime fresher when their training is gone and your time comes for going to Antarctica but if the Field Training Officers tink you have not changed a bit then you would have to some other common core competencies type of training. The survival are navigation so you when you use a compass you know how to use it and you know how to get to places in Antarctica, snow shelters, glacier travel, crevasse rescue, your knowledge of clothing use, knowledge of government policies, legislative requirements and the AAD policies applicable for services with the AAD.

Expeditioners would also have some search and rescue training and vehicle and equitment training. Vehicle and equitment training is when expeditioners would need to use vehicles to drive out of a glacier or snow. Expeditioners would be using these type of vehicles hugglands, nodwell, quad, skidoo and the John Deree tractor,

=__ What clothing would you need? How would you get there? __=

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This video tells you how you would be dressed for going to Antarctica. It also talks about wearing a thermal layer on top of your skin then wear a loose jacket because it would trap the air inside and change the cold air into your body tempreture and you would start getting heat from the cold air.=====

__ How would you get there? __

Now that you're one of the AAd expeditioner's you and you're in Sydney. You would take a plane from the airport from Sydney and fly south to Hobart and from Hobart you would be gping on a ship from the AAD on start to sail to Antarctica.

This schedule is a shedule for going to Hobart.

Code ||~ Cargo Cut-off ||~ Depart ||~ Return ||~ Vessel ||~ Route || Tuesday 15-Oct-2013 || HBA Saturday 16-Nov-2013 || Aurora Australis || On charter, load Davis resupply cargo, bunker vessel || Monday 21-Oct-2013 || HBA Wednesday 30-Oct-2013 || L'Astrolabe || Early insertion of priority summer personnel and essential cargo into Macquarie Island || Friday 08-Nov-2013 05:00 || MEL Friday 08-Nov-2013 16:00 || Airbus A319 || Hobart to McMurdo, Flight to link with LC 130. Mail only, no carriage of cargo || Monday 25-Nov-2013 || HBA Saturday 07-Dec-2013 || Aurora Australis || Marine Science Trials, Macquarie Island summer insertion || Tuesday 26-Nov-2013 05:00 || HBA Tuesday 26-Nov-2013 16:00 || Airbus A319 || Hobart to Wilkins Aerodrome, Main Casey summer insertion || Tuesday 03-Dec-2013 05:00 || HBA Tuesday 03-Dec-2013 16:00 || Airbus A319 || Hobart to Wilkins Aerodrome, Flight to ferry pax to Casey || Friday 06-Dec-2013 05:00 || HBA Friday 06-Dec-2013 16:00 || Airbus A319 || Hobart to Wilkins Aerodrome, Flight to ferry pax to Casey || Monday 09-Dec-2013 || HBA Saturday 04-Jan-2014 || Aurora Australis || Load Casey resupply cargo, bunker vessel, load 1 x Jet Barge || Tuesday 10-Dec-2013 05:00 || HBA Tuesday 10-Dec-2013 16:00 || Airbus A319 || Hobart to Wilkins Aerodrome, Flight to ferry pax to Casey || Friday 03-Jan-2014 05:00 || HBA Friday 03-Jan-2014 15:30 || Airbus A319 || Hobart to Wilkins Aerodrome, Flight to ferry pax to Casey. || Saturday 18-Jan-2014 || HBA Monday 03-Mar-2014 || Aurora Australis || Mawson resupply & changeover, Davis summer retrieval, Casey || Tuesday 28-Jan-2014 05:00 || HBA Tuesday 28-Jan-2014 16:00 || Airbus A319 || Hobart to Wilkins Aerodrome, Flight to ferry pax to Casey || Tuesday 04-Feb-2014 05:00 || HBA Tuesday 04-Feb-2014 16:00 || Airbus A319 || Hobart to Wilkins Aerodrome, Flight to ferry pax to Casey || Tuesday 11-Feb-2014 05:00 || HBA Tuesday 11-Feb-2014 16:00 || Airbus A319 || Hobart to Wilkins Aerodrome, Flight to ferry pax to Casey || Tuesday 18-Feb-2014 05:00 || HBA Tuesday 18-Feb-2014 16:00 || Airbus A319 || Hobart to Wilkins Aerodrome, Flight to ferry pax to Casey || Tuesday 25-Feb-2014 05:00 || HBA Tuesday 25-Feb-2014 16:00 || Airbus A319 || Hobart to Wilkins Aerodrome, Retrieval flight for end of season. No carriage of cargo/mail south || Wednesday 05-Mar-2014 || HBA Wednesday 19-Mar-2014 || Aurora Australis || Macquarie Island resupply || V= V means voyage which means that you would be going on a ship F= F means flight which means that you would be going on a plane
 * ~ Transport
 * V1 || 19-Sep-2013 || HBA
 * VMI || 03-Oct-2013 || HBA
 * FMcM01 ||  || HBA
 * V2 || 31-Oct-2013 || HBA
 * FA01 || 21-Nov-2013 || HBA
 * FA02 || 28-Nov-2013 || HBA
 * FA03 || 29-Nov-2013 || HBA
 * V3 || 14-Nov-2013 || HBA
 * FA04 || 05-Dec-2013 || HBA
 * FA05 || 23-Dec-2013 || HBA
 * V4 || 19-Dec-2013 || HBA
 * FA06 || 23-Jan-2014 || HBA
 * FA07 || 30-Jan-2014 || HBA
 * FA08 || 06-Feb-2014 || HBA
 * FA09 || 13-Feb-2014 || HBA
 * FA10 ||  || HBA
 * V5 || 30-Jan-2014 || HBA

What happens before departing from Hobart to Antarctica?
You would be told from the AAD to change your clothing there are three different colours of clothing which each represents a type of job you're doing in Antarctica.

=__ Where would you live and what food would you eat whilst there? __=

Mawson base, Davis base and Casey base are all researching stations but you can still live in the stations.But we dont live in igloos.You might be living in one of these bases Casey base, Davis base and Mawson base. As an Antarctic expedtioner you would already have your accomodation ready if you want to be alone by yourself then your accomodation would cost you $80per day without the help of the AAD. If you're and expeditioner and you don't mind sharing than your accomodation would cost $18.20per day if you're living with the AAD apartment hotel but they don't have one but most of the expeditoner would be living in the Quest Trinty Apartments.

What food would you eat whilst there? Under the Quest Trinty Apartments has an AAD cafeteria where every expedtioner would have their breakfast, lunch and dinner. This AAD cafeteria is also open to the public of Hobart. Expeditioners would be living in a station and in the station there is a chef who cookes everyones meals. The food you eat like chickens, eggs or turkey must be eaten inside the station not outside because it can spread diseases out to the Antarctic environment. Expeditioners must eat their hot food inside the staion not outside the stations because it might cause some dieseases to the Antarctic environment again and you can still have hot food not cold food. If expeditioners are hungry throughout the day and they're still working they could keep a small amount of chocolate so they can eat it because chocolate can melt but it can freeze but you can still eat it, you can eat alot of chocolate and not get fat in Antarctica but if you eat alot of chocolate you would get fat when you're in Australia because you're not moving throughout the day enough to lose your weight. Now that all the hot warm food is finished then expeditioners would start eating with canned food.

=__ Would food eaten on a field trip be different from food eaten whilst at the base? __=

The food that you would be eating is chocolate on your trip to Antarctica which take about a few weeks but when you're at Antarctica you can still eat chocolate but in the base there are also warm food that could be eaten anytime of the day but on the ship on the way to Antarctica you could eat chocolate and some other warm food but on the station there wouldn't be enough food for every expeditioner in a few weeks so then on the station every expeditioner would start to eat canned foood which is different from eating food on your trip because normally food wouldn't be served as canned containers but then on the trip there would be something similar as an gourmet. Where you can eat food on the way to Antartica and on the staion you would be eating canned food for most of the time.