Mapping

McMurdo

A YEAR ON ICE by Anthony Powell, year unknown

Jo Whittaker at McMurdo Sound, Summer, 2004-2005

You've got this vast expanse, and you can't hear anybody else, you've got, you know, ear muffs on to keep you ears warm, and it's just you and the skidoo, out there, and it's exhilarating, because you can go reasonably fast on those roads. But it's also very peaceful, because you're on your own, and you're sort of taking in the scenery and you're heading off, and specially when you're going out into the field areas you're going somewhere new, and you don't know what's ahead, and you lose that sense of space as well; it's very hard to tell the distance - you know, how far you're going, and how far the distance is between you and those mountains over there. You feel so free and open and you are just hanging out, in the centre of it all.

Jo Whittaker, Candidate for PhD (Geosciences)

University of Sydney, 2008