Send and decode messages from Antarctica
Before email, mobile phones and satellites, expeditioners in Antarctica faced a challenge: how could they stay in touch with loved ones thousands of kilometres away?
To send personal messages, they used five-letter WYSSA codes, with each code representing a specific sentence. WYSSA, for example, was code for ‘All my love darling’.
Expeditioners had a limit to the number of codes they could send each year (around 160 in the early days) - so every message had to be short and carefully chosen.
Can you communicate using codes? Play the computer or play with a friend!
