A WA tradie has traded red dirt for snow and blistering 40C heat of the Pilbara for the freezing -40C cold of Antarctica.

Angus Cameron, a mechanic from WA’s north, has been calling the Casey station his home for more than a year now.

The 26-year-old said the opportunity to work in a rarely explored part of the world seemed too good to pass up.

“I thought it sounded like a pretty cool experience... probably about two years ago now I applied to come down, and about 12-months-ago ended up coming down,” he told PerthNow.

“The work itself is much the same, I’m a mechanic by trade, so fixing machines is the same everywhere you go it’s just the environment that we do it in.”

The living environment of going from a mining region to the winterland couldn’t be more polar opposite in both a li

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