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http://www.antarctica.gov.au/living-and-working

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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?

__Working in Antarctica__ = media type="youtube" key="OUDsK8ymavQ" height="510" width="640" ANTARCTICA PROJECT =

====Antarctica is one of the most coldest desert. The dessert has been melting in summer, the temperature during summer time is around -10C til -60Cand at winter the average temperature is 0C to -30C. The height of this desert is 2830metres, the area is almost twice as big as Australia and is 13,661,000km2. Antarctica is to be known as the highest, driest, windiest and the coldest 5th continent in the whole world.====



Training
====Before going to work in Antarctica, people must take pre-training. The main points of pre-training are to gain knowledge and skills for their safety,work efficiently, take part of the program and to reduce the risk of threatening other peoples' lives. It also keeps the environment healthy by not trashing rubbish in antarctica. There are about 5 pre-training activities to undertake before heading off to the South Pole. Here are two types of trainings;Pre-departure training and Field training.==== ====This training must be required for people going to Antarctica with Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) for more than fourteen days(involving the travel time to attempt formal pre-departure training. Everyone will be trained in Hobart for longer two to three days prior departure. The pre-departure training will last for three years.==== ====The people who contribute in fieldwork that will include campaign, must also participate in the Field training course. This course involves instructions and practical training in the Antarctic camp craft, going on with glacier traveling techniques and abyss the rescuing under simulated conditions. In this activity it will include survival practice. Refresher training are for people who have already undertaken the process with the Field training and they will have to do this activity every 3 years.====



Living in a base
====To live in an Antarctic Base, the stations must be operative and safe from fire due to the fact that the air temperatures are extremely cold, the air is damp and it can light up the old lumber easily. The place must always be stable and flexible so that violent snowstorms will not bury up the people inside or damage the shelter. In Antarctica, there are already tents included and tents are the most normal process in the field compromisation.====

Food in Antarctica
====The food people eat at Antarctica is just normal food you eat at home, like beef and many more but the vegetarians and people who are intolerant or cannot eat a certain type of food will have to eat special kinds of food. The fruits, vegetables and meat will have to be dried, tinned or frozen, if they don't, they will become to rotten. To produce water, the stations can melt the snow or they can remove the fresh water from sea salt water. There is a chef which is one of the Station Support Jobs. The fruits, vegetables and meat has to be either frozen, dried or tinned due to the limitation of transfering food by ship or aircraft and also so that they won't rot easily. Everybody is involved to help wash the dishes, clean and distribute to the waste.==== ====The difference between Antarctica compared to the other normal countries are that in the Antarctic, there are actually no supermarket gardens or any farms at all, so Australia and New Zealand will have to provide the fresh products.====


 * < Activities ||< Energy loss(per day) ||
 * < hauling sledges ||< 6500calories(27300KJ) ||
 * < traveling by dog sledges ||< 5000calories(21000KJ) ||
 * < traveling on ski doo ||< 3350calories(14070KJ) ||
 * < Working inside buildings in the stations ||< 2750calories(11550KJ) ||

Transports to Antarctica
====The people going to Antarctica will get there by a ship or by flight.The winter season is not a good option to go there due to the continent expanding and it's normally the warmest time of the season from December til January.==== ====The people sailing by ship will take around between 10 to 12 days to get to their destination from Tasmania, New Zealand or Argentina. Going by cruise is the most expensive and easiest way of getting to Antarctica. 1 vessel can hold from 45 to 280 passengers and a whole voyage will have to take a larger vessels, loading up to 960 people==== ====The passengers going by flight will take 6 to 7days in some trips to Antarctica and it's the easiest and cheapest way to get there. Some of the people have to first fly to Frei Station in Chile and fly from Punta Arenas which is in Chile, then go for a cruise for 6 days.==== ====4,000 people study and work in Antarctica from worldwide at summertime but in winter they leave at least 1,000 people to work there. After arriving in Antarctica, they travel by either a ski doo or a hagglund to get to their stations and bases.====

Appropriate things to bring
====The necessary things to bring with you are bating suit, sunscreen, lipbalm, lotion, motion medication Day pack/Back pack, wrap-around sunglasses, camera, binoculars, wildlife guide, gloves, 2 pairs of socks, normal toiletries.====

Appropriate clothings
====The clothings you will keep warm in are thermal shirt and pants, a light fleece jersey, fleece pants, down pants, breathable and waterproof overpants, down vest, down jacket with a hood, breathable and waterproof jacket with a hood, fleece hat, thermal gloves, fleece gloves, breathable and waterproof mittens and a neck gaiter.==== ====If you become hot and you start sweating, you should always take your layers because then the weight of clothings will be heavier when the sweat freezes. Breathable layers are relevant because it will eliminate the sweat from your skin.====



There are around 20 jobs to do in the Antarctic like mechanical work. These are 3 of the occupation in Antarctica;Station Leader and Antarctic Medical Practitioner.
====The Station Leader of the community is culpable for the distribution and authority of all the courses and also exploration personnel on your assigned Australian Antarctic Station. The leader is in charge of growing and preserving an operative and a well-cooperated community. This person has to resolute fights or problems of behaviour. The leader has the power of almost everything like controling a ship going back and forth. The person is a guidance for emergencies, searching, accidents and saving peoples lives.==== ====The Antarctic Medical Practitioner has to take care of injured and sick people. The types of cures they do are surgery, medical and dental. They will have to cure about 15 to 80 people for around 13 months. The problems they will need to face is public health, occupational health and also safety issues and nutrition problems.====

Other things to do in Antarctica
==== The things people do for fun are hiking, jogging, skiing from a far away distance than the location of the hut or maybe keep the night in shelter. Some people can watch or take pictures of fascinating creatures ====

The people inside can go watch a movie or TV, listen to some music, grab a drink in the bar, use the internet, send messages to your family or they can read a book.



 * Websites || Accessed Date ||  ||   ||
 * http://www.antarctica.gov.au/living-and-working/training || 01/07/13 ||  ||   ||
 * http://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/science/food.htm || 20/08/13 ||  ||   ||
 * http://www.antarctica.gov.au/jobs/jobs-in-antarctica/station-leader-casey-davis-mawson-and-macquarie-island || 11/08/13 ||  ||   ||
 * http://www.antarctica.gov.au/jobs/jobs-in-antarctica/antarctic-medical-practitioner || 16/07/13 ||  ||   ||
 * http://www.antarctica.gov.au/about-antarctica/people-in-antarctica/fun || 02/09/13 ||  ||   ||
 * http://www.top-adventure-tours.com/antarctica-clothing.html || 05/08/13 ||  ||   ||
 * http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/apfp/plan/training.php || 28/07/13 ||  ||   ||
 * http://gdargaud.net/Antarctica/VisitingAntarctica.html || 15/08/13 ||  ||   ||
 * http://www.astronomicaltours.net/Antarctica2/PackList/Packing.html || 19/08/13 ||  ||   ||


 * http://www.antarctica.gov.au/about-antarctica/people-in-antarctica/food || 01/09/13 ||
 * http://www.antarctica.gov.au/about-antarctica/people-in-antarctica/clothing || 05/08/13 ||