To mark the winter solstice, there’s a nudie Tassie swim – and then there are the Australian Antarctic expeditioners. At the Australian stations, a hole was cut in the ice with a chainsaw and digger to make a plunge pool, with swimmers medically supervised as they were lowered into the -1.8C water. At Macquarie Island, meanwhile, researchers swam twice as seals watched from the shore

Source: The Guardian June 21, 2024 09:42 UTC