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412531
  • Title
    Series 186: Australia in the Antarctic
  • Call number
    PXE 731/1876-1915
  • Level of description
    series
  • Date

    1950s
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    412531
  • Physical Description
    40 photographic prints - silver gelatin - 20 x 25 cm or smaller
  • Scope and Content
    1876. Field party, roped together, explore badly crevassed glacier, Heard Island
    1877. Showing how an iceberg is born. The berg on the right of the picture has broken away from the glacier tongue at the centre
    1878. Aerial view of Mawson Harbour, showing Kista Dan with ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition) station astern and mountain ranges in background
    1879. Shelf-ice at Queen Maud Land
    1880. Icebergs and new sea ice, Antarctica
    1881. Expedition ship moving through pack ice, Antarctica
    1882. Light pack ice forms a fringe over a hundred miles long
    1883. A seal is killed near Mawson to feed the sledge dogs. Kista Dan in background
    1884. Kista Dan charging her way through pack ice
    1885. Field party at Mawson, Antarctica, wear snow goggles to protect their eyes from the glare, and snow blindness
    1886. Phillip Law, leader of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions with another member of the party and the Kista Dan in the background. MacRobertson Land, Antarctica
    1887. Tractor winching up sledge carrying 15kVA engine, Mawson, Antarctica
    1888. Tractor fork-lift hoists roof onto aluminium hut. Mawson, Antarctica
    1889. Inside cosmic ray lab, Macquarie Island
    1890. Auster aircraft fitted with skis, weasels and sledges on the fast ice near the Mawson Station in Antarctica
    1891. Dog team and sledge in plateau drift, Antarctica
    1892. Huskies resting on sledging trip, Antarctica
    1893. Skuas at Heard Island feeding on carcass of Giant petrel
    1894. Two men making their way back to the ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition) station at Heard Island, engulfed in a blizzard
    1895. Macquarie cabbage
    1896. Map of southern Australia and Antarctica, with distances marked out between Melbourne, Macquarie Island, Heard Island, Mawson, Vestfold Hills and Iles de Kerguelen
    1897. Skuas and dominican gulls on beach at Atlas Cove, Heard Island. Big Ben in background
    1898. Aerial view of Heard Island
    1899. Cape Arcona and Gotley Glacier, Heard Island
    1900. The 9005 foot summit of Big Ben, Mawson Peak, Heard Island. An active volcano
    1901. Heard Island penguin rookery
    1902. Anzac Peak, Heard Island
    1903. Crossing lava on Laurens Peninsula
    1904. Ronald Kenny, marine biologist, and Gershom Major, radio physicist, display a trailer of kelp
    1905. Ice washed ashore from the nearby Baudissin Glacier at Corinthian Bay, Heard Island
    1906. The Macquarie Island Plateau, pleurophyllum hookeri in the foreground
    1907. Weather personnel at Heard Island ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition) station releasing free hydrogen radiosonde balloon
    1908. Meteorological staff with pilot balloon ready for flight, ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition) station, Heard Island
    1909. Meteorological staff taking sea temperature in Atlas Cove, Heard Island
    1910. Barograph trace runs nearly off the chart during a spell of cyclonic weather at Heard Island
    1911. Weather personnel at Heard Island studying instruments in the stevenson screen
    1912. A lenticular cloud over Big Ben, Heard Island
    1913. Macquarie Island, 1955. The main camp at Buckles Bay. Looking south towards the plateau
    1914. Biologist Ronald Kenny at work on one of his specimens, a deepsea crab
    1915. Macquarie cabbage and tussock grass, Macquarie Island
  • System of arrangement
    According to numerical sequence on reverse
  • 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

    6 images missing from original set (accompanying envelope).
    Digital order no: Album ID : 861900
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    'N.S.W. Education Department Visual Education Centre Library' stamped on reverse. '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 731/1893, PXE 731/1909 and PXE 731/1911. 'Aurora Photo Service, 49 Elizabeth Bay Road, Elizabeth Bay' stamped on reverse at PXE 731/1913. Typed cardboard captions affixed to some photos. Captions typed directly onto front of some photos.
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