• Title
  Series 183: Heard and Macquarie Islands
• Call number
  PXE 731/1798-1830
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  1950s
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  412501
• Physical Description
  33 photographic prints - silver gelatin - 21 x 26 cm or smaller
  
• Scope and Content
  1798. Returning to Australia, the Wyatt Earp called in at Macquarie Island, where naval LST 3501 had landed a unit of the ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition) for a winter stay
  1799. Expedition member overlooking West Bay and Atlas Cove at Heard Island
  1800. Weather personnel releasing a Radiosonde balloon and transmitter at Heard Island ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition) station
  1801. Map of Heard Island
  1802. Black-browed albatrosses. Heard Island
  1803. Blue-eyed cormorants line the foreshore of Atlas Cove, Heard Island
  1804. Macaroni penguins, Heard Island, with 9005 foot Big Ben in background
  1805. Weather observer releasing a radiosonde balloon and transmitter at Heard Island
  1806. Pleurophyllum hookeri. Another genus peculiar to the sub-antarctic islands south of New Zealand. Abundant on the Macquarie Island plateau and coastal bogs
  1807. A young great wandering albatross. Macquarie Island
  1808. Grassy hummocks appear around the ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition) Station at Heard Island at sea level during the short summer
  1809. Azorella covering hillside, Heard Island. Light mantled sooty albatross on nest in middle distance
  1810. Roger's Head, 600 feet high rock pinnacle, rises above section of island's biggest penguin rookery, Macquarie Island
  1811. Group Captain S.A. Campbell (centre) officially opening the first Australian Post Office to be set up in Antarctica. Assistant is L. Macey, Coogee, New South Wales, chief radio operator at Heard Island
  1812. Sea elephants basking on the black volcanic sandy beach at Heard Island
  1813. Sea elephants and royal penguins, Macquarie Island
  1814. Plateau stream, Macquarie Island
  1815. Charles Speedy, cosmic ray physicist and Peter King, radio telegraphist, inspect 'Macquarie Island cabbage', a local vegetable
  1816. Looking down on the coastal terrace, covered with tussock grass. Penguin rookeries on the right and near the coast. Macquarie Island
  1817. Tussock grass bog on coastal terrace at Macquarie Island. Elephant seals on beach
  1818. Light mantled sooty albatrosses at Macquarie Island
  1819. Cosmic ray physicist, Jim Bishop
  1820. Acaena adscendens. A herbuccous plant common in the coastal areas of Macquarie Island
  1821. Tussock grass with a clump of macquarie cabbage in the foreground. Macquarie Island
  1822. Gentoo penguins building nests at Heard Island. Skua in foreground standing by to steal any eggs left unguarded
  1823. Light mantled sooty albatross with chick. Heard Island
  1824. Fulmar prion. Nests in cliffs on Heard Island
  1825. 'Penguin Road', Heard Island. This narrow 'road' was formed by millions of macaroni penguins migrating inshore from the sea
  1826. A rookery of royal penguins
  1827. Macquarie Island. Aurora Australis, 1955
  1828. Macquarie Island, 1955. Elephant seal bull
  1829. Macquarie Island, 1955. A gentoo mother with her two chicks in their nest amongst the tussocks
  1830. Macquarie Island, 1955. A wandering albatross and its chick. These birds are very tame and seem to like human company
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright restrictions may apply:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder
• Description source
  
  Titled from accompanying envelope.
• General note
  
  Some images are on 20 x 26 cm cardboard mounts.
  3 images missing from original set (accompanying envelope).
  Digital order no: Album ID : 866901
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  'N.S.W. Education Department Visual Education Centre Library' stamped on reverse of most images. 'Department of External Affairs Antarctic Division ANARE photo' stamped on reverse of most images. 'Dept of the Interior News & Information Bureau' stamped on reverse at PXE 731/1808. 'Aurora Photo Service, 49 Elizabeth Bay Road, Elizabeth Bay' stamped on reverse at PXE 731/1827-1830.
• Name
  Bishop, Jim
  Speedy, Charles
  Wyatt Earp (Ship)
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions.
  
• Topic
  albatrosses
  aurora australis
  balloons
  bays
  buildings, structures & establishments
  cabbages
  cormorants
  creeks
  elephant seals
  islands
  McCormick skuas
  maps
  mountains
  penguins
  plants
  portraits
  post offices
  radio transmitters
  rookeries
  ships
  snow
  
• Place
  Heard Island (Antarctica)
  Macquarie Island (Antarctica)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1040921

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