A group of Secret Harbour students have made history by becoming the first children to fly to and set foot on Antarctica.
Six students from Secret Harbour Primary School joined six students from Tasmania's St Virgil’s College and the Federal Environment Minister for the 6,000km round trip, spending 3 hours on the ice.
The two schools won a competition to name the nation’s new Antarctic ice breaker RSV Nuyina.
The schools chose the same name which means “southern lights” in the language spoken by Tasmanian Aboriginals, and continues a tradition of naming Australian Antarctic ships after the atmospheric phenomenon.
Year 5 student Imogen Low was one of the Secret Harbour students to set foot on the southerly land mass yesterday.
"It was pretty cool,” Imogen told The West Australian.
“We went to the Antarctic circle sign and we went and saw where all the people sleep. And we had a snowball fight.”
The students spent 3 hours riding tracked snow vehicles, helping scientists drill for ice core samples and inspecting a field camp.
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