{"id":749872,"date":"2026-06-21T01:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T01:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/749872\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T01:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T01:13:10","slug":"antarctic-medal-recipients-announced-australian-antarctic-program-news-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/749872\/","title":{"rendered":"Antarctic Medal recipients announced \u2013 Australian Antarctic Program (News 2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three long-time contributors to Australia\u2019s scientific and logistical endeavours in Antarctica have been awarded the prestigious Australian Antarctic Medal in recognition of their service to the Australian Antarctic Program.<\/p>\n<p>The three medal recipients were announced by the Governor-General of Australia, Her Excellency the Honourable Ms Sam Mostyn AC, on a special Honours List for Midwinter\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.antarctica.gov.au\/about-antarctica\/australia-in-antarctica\/australian-antarctic-medal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Antarctic Medal<\/a>, previously called the Antarctic Medal, is awarded for outstanding service in scientific research or exploration in connection with an Australian Antarctic expedition, or for support of such work.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 recipients of the Antarctic Medal are:<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThis content was last updated 1 hour ago<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\ton 21 June 2026.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three long-time contributors to Australia\u2019s scientific and logistical endeavours in Antarctica have been awarded the prestigious Australian Antarctic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-749872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}