At Mawson everyday everybody does a lot of things that in the course of their job could seem quite mundane, but in the context were we are they are very special. I thought I'd give you all a short peek into the a normal day's activities at Awesome Mawson.

As the summer approaches, the sea ice begins to melt and regular sea ice thickness monitoring must be performed. This involves using a ice corer to drill down into to ice and then using a tape measure to determine it's thickness. During winter most vehicles can be easily driven over the sea ice because the ice is 1 metre thick but as the ice melts a thickness below about 300mm means the Hagglunds cannot travel on the ice (their mass is about 4 tonnes), below about 150mm thickness quads and are banned and a bit thinner than that means no walking.