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A surveyor stands beside a metal reflector shaped like a top hat, with a black and white checkerboard pattern on its round top.

Heard Island tips its tophats to satellite imagery

Eight ‘tophat reflectors’ will be installed on remote Heard Island this season to improve the accuracy of satellite imagery used… Read more
Small pancakes of sea ice in an undulating swell, with an iceberg on the horizon and seabirds circling above

New study confirms “abrupt changes” underway in Antarctica

Antarctica and the Southern Ocean are experiencing “abrupt changes” due to human-caused climate change. Read more

A woman marks the end of an ice core with a pencil.

Shaping science in Antarctica

As the new Chief Scientist at the Australian Antarctic Division, Professor… Read more
A snow covered mountain rises in the distance, with cloud around the peak and water in the foreground.

Australian Antarctic Program heads to Heard Island

In September 2025, RSV Nuyina will take scientists and expeditioners to… Read more
A line of emperor penguins in a rocky, snow-covered landscape

Mawson emperor penguin census

Mawson station expeditioners visited the Taylor Glacier emperor penguin… Read more

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