Matthew Jordan fell in love with the vast southern continent on a cruise. Eight years later, he’s preparing to spend months working through an Antarctic winter
was as a tourist in 2014. I booked a cruise from Argentina and spent 10 days sailing around the Antarctic peninsula. It was after that I decided Antarctica was the place I wanted my career to head.
When I first visited Antarctica, an engineer there told me to reach out to the national Antarctic programme about jobs. Being Australian, I originally contacted their national programme, but actually the role with AntarcticaPhotograph: Hugh Broughton The only family I have in New Zealand is my partner who is from Perth as well. When I first got the job, I let her know it was a dream for me and that I would love to winter over at some point before we have kids – so she knew this was coming, but it is going to be a bit of a challenge being away from her for such a long period.
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