Margot Foster from Bush Telegraph has been awarded an Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowship and has recently set off on the Australian Antarctic Division Ship, Aurora Australis to visit Macquarie Island in the subantarctic, as well as the Antarctic mainland.

While Margot is away, she'll be sending back sounds and pictures and we'll be publishing them here. You can also send Margot messages or questions through our guestbook, and she'll reply to as many of you as she can.

Here's a message from Margot, 'your ear on Antarctica'

Margot gets ready to embark, Sunday 20 February

"Right now I'm on board the Aurora Australis travelling south to Mawson and Casey and returning via Macquarie Island. This is the final voyage of the season so we are taking in the last supplies and people and bringing others back.

"I'm here as one of the Antarctic Arts Fellows to listen for and collect the sounds of the driest, coldest and windiest continent on earth.

"Come with me and hear the bird and animal life along with the humans in their daily battle for survival."

Mawson Base	An iceberg in the Southern Ocean

Stay tuned for more...

For more information on the operations of the Australian Antarctic Division, please visit their website: http://www.aad.gov.au/