Communications

Lifting large mail bags into a shipping container

Mail en route to the ship Photo: AAD

There are a number of communications services that assist expeditioners to maintain contact with family and friends.

Depending on your location, you may have access to the following services: Australia Post mail during the summer shipping season, email, telephone and facsimile.

If you are working at Davis, Mawson, Casey or Macquarie Island stations, you will have access to more facilities than an expeditioner who is working at a remote field camp or is travelling to or from Antarctica.

The booklet Communicating with Antarctica (Chapter 12 in theExpeditioner Handbook) is essential reading for you and your family before departure. This publication includes important information on:

  • ways of communicating
  • Australia Post
  • the ANARESAT satellite telephone system in Antarctica
  • station computer networks, including what sort of computer to take
  • email
  • communicating with chartered ships
  • time differences

Mail closing dates for each voyage may vary during the season and are updated on the internet.

This page was last modified on June 29, 2011.