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• The "'Mackellar Islands "', also "'MacKellar Islets "', are a group of about 30 small islands and rocks lying north of Cape Denison in the center of Commonwealth Bay, Antarctica.
• For two weeks from 25 December 2013 " Akademik Shokalskiy " was trapped in thick ice in Commonwealth Bay, Antarctica, while operating an expedition for the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 2013-2014.
• Despite the extreme weather, the coast of Commonwealth Bay is an important breeding area for Antarctic petrels, emperor penguins, and Adelie penguins which means that there are also Leopard seals
• "' Lesser Mackellar Island "'is a small island immediately northeast of Greater Mackellar Island in the Mackellar Islands of Antarctica, lying north of Cape Denison in the center of Commonwealth Bay.
• Mawson's wooden hut has stood on Commonwealth Bay since 1911, surviving 60-80 mph ( 96-128 kph ) gales that last for days, sandblasting the boards with ice crystals and specks of gravel.
• The flight also goes over Mawson's old hut at Commonwealth Bay, clinging to the rock against the winds that have battered it since 1912, and returns over the sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island, home to an Australian research base.
• In 2006-07 he sailed with his family on board the ice-strengthened ship " Sarsen " to Commonwealth Bay in Antarctica and in 2009 circumnavigated Greenland on board Greenpeace's icebreaker, Arctic Sunrise as part of their Climate Impacts expedition.
• The Australian couple will spend 12 months in a small fiberglass and timber " survival hut " at Commonwealth Bay, near the site of Sir Douglas Mawson's historic hut in what has been documented as the windiest place on Earth.
• McIntyre, 41, was speaking from the 8-by-12-foot prefabricated shed he and his wife lived in near the mouth of Commonwealth Bay, a remote harbor below the Antarctic Circle that is accessible by water for only four to six weeks a year.
• However, this work has been delayed, in 2010-11 by logistical constraints, and in 2011-12 and 2012-13 by the presence of giant iceberg B9B which has locked in fast ice and prevented the French Antarctic supply vessel " L'Astrolabe " from entering Commonwealth Bay.
• In an article in " Antarctic Science ", researchers wrote : " The arrival of iceberg B09B in Commonwealth Bay, East Antarctica, and subsequent fast ice expansion has dramatically increased the distance Ad閘ie penguins breeding at Cape Denison must travel in search of food ".
• About from Cape Denison, Mertz succumbed to the combined effects of starvation and food poisoning; the dogs'livers contained dangerously high levels of vitamin A . The " Aurora " had arrived in Commonwealth Bay on 13 January 1913 and waited for the sledging parties to return.
• Mawson staggered back into the Cape Denison hut a month later, missing the " Aurora " by a matter of hours; she had waited for Mertz, Mawson and Ninnis for three weeks until concerned by the encroaching winter ice Davis had sailed her out of Commonwealth Bay and back to Australia.
• On 8 February, just hours after " Aurora " left Commonwealth Bay after waiting for three weeks, Mawson staggered alone into base, his colleagues Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis and Xavier Mertz dead . from base, Ninnis and the sledge he was walking beside were lost when they broke through the lid of a crevasse.