• Title
  Series 188: Australia sets up world's loneliest weather post. Heard Island, Antarctica
• Call number
  PXE 731/1917-1941
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  1950s
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  412534
• Physical Description
  25 photographic prints - silver gelatin - 16 x 20 cm or smaller
  
• Scope and Content
  1917. ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition) members inspect the inhospitable coast of Heard Island, their home for the next 12 months
  1918. An ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition) meteorologist, A V Gotley, Sydney, warily greets an angry bull sea elephant, between 2 and 3 tons weight
  1919. Kenneth Hines and Charles Speedy, cosmic ray physicists, inspect a young sea elephant in the snow
  1920. Pontoons for landing lighter goods
  1921. The British government established this emergency hut on Heard Island in 1927
  1922. Lieutenant-Commander G.M.Dixon, LST 3501 skipper
  1923. Drums of oil floated ashore at Atlas Cove Point, ready for the shore party's winter stay
  1924. Penguins show great interest when LST 3501 first beached in Atlas Cove
  1925. Shore party unpacking the huts chosen for their winter quarters
  1926. First party ashore at Atlas Cove, Heard Island
  1927. The beach-head at Heard Island
  1928. Peter Blaxland at emergency fuel dump at Kerguelen Island, 300 miles north of Heard Island
  1929. Members of the scientific party and sailors manhandled the pontoons through treacherous seas before the bulldozer finally hauled them ashore
  1930. J.F. Ivanec, geologist, with a rock-hopper penguin
  1931. Leopard seal
  1932. Gentoo penguins
  1933. Stuart Campbell, leader of ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition), and T. Liddell, examine a royal penguin at a Macquarie Island rookery
  1934. Elephant seals or sea elephants
  1935. The Macquarie Island camp site
  1936. Royal penguins, Macquarie Island
  1937. Close-up of letters posted from Macquarie Island to the King and Queen, Princess Elizabeth, Winston Churchill and General Smuts
  1938. Members of ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition) raising a cheer as Group Captain S.A. Campbell, centre, hoists the Australian flag on Heard Island, December 26, 1947
  1939. Emergency fuel dump on Kerguelen Island
  1940. Roger's Head, above section of island's biggest penguin rookery
  1941. Map of South Pole and surrounds
• 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
  
  Most images are on 20 x 26 cm cardboard mounts.
  Digital order no: Album ID : 861909
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  'N.S.W. Education Department Visual Education Centre Library' stamped on reverse of most images. 'Official photograph by Norman Laird' typed on reverse at PXE 731/1919, PXE 731/1931-1932. Typed labels on reverse of most images contain further information about particular expeditions and the history of Antarctica.
• Name
  Campbell, Stuart A. C., 1903-1988
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions.
  
• Topic
  bays
  beaches
  buildings, structures & establishments
  camps
  crates
  drums (containers)
  elephant seals
  flags
  islands
  leopard seals
  maps
  meteorological stations
  mountains
  official events
  penguins
  pontoons
  portraits
  postage stamps
  postcards
  rookeries
  ships
  signs
  snow
  
• Place
  Heard Island (Antarctica)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
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