Commonwealth Bay
Aurora Expeditions’ Akademik Shokalskiy has become the first ship to sail into Commonwealth Bay this Antarctic season, making it within 10 nautical miles of Mawson’s Hut to commemorate Sir Douglas Mawson’s arrival 100 years ago. The ship sailed into the bay on the evening of 10 January 2012, just two days after the estimated centenary of Mawson’s landing in 1912. [Read more…]
