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    Antarctica by air

    Feb 24, 2022 4 minutes
    STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY CHRISSIE GOLDRICK

    MY NEW YEAR’S EVE is often spent fighting my fellow revellers for a half-decent view of the fireworks along Sydney’s crowded foreshore. I inevitably leave it far too late to head into the city and find myself craning for a glimpse of the annual spectacle from behind some vast harbourside edifice. This time around, however, after two years of being grounded due to COVID, I decided to ring in the changes aboard a sightseeing flight to Antarctica.

    I set off for the airport with fairly low expectations – after all, how much can you really expect to see from a plane window? But the

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