After weeks of living without the sun, expeditioners at Australia’s Antarctic stations are celebrating midwinter’s day with a subzero swim through a hole cut in the sea ice! Brrrrr!!!

To mark the shortest day of the year 89 expeditioners at Australia’s three research stations in Antarctica and on sub Antarctic Macquarie Island, have plunged into the icy water.

Midwinter is a significant milestone for Antarctic expeditioners because it marks the turning point in a long dark winter.

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