Australian Antarctic Division
Pioneering Australian scientist Dr Patricia Selkirk has been awarded an AC (Companion of the Order) honour for her decades of work and research on Antarctica and the sub-Antarctic.
Dr Selkirk was among the first Australian female scientists to spend a lengthy amount of time in Antarctica and Macquarie Island.
She was the first woman to spend a summer at Casey research station over 1982/83.
“I didn’t set out to be a trailblazer. I was interested in what I was doing and I had the opportunity to visit places of enormous scientific interest,” Dr Selkirk said.
“It’s an astonishing situation I find myself in now, I’m delighted, surprised and very honoured to be receiving this recognition.”
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