File 08: Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911-1914 photographs : postcard size

ON 144/P1-P58
ON 144/P60-P266

file

1911-1914

Graphic Materials, Photographs

9654800

265 negatives - glass plate, film, black and white - 5 1/2 x 3 1/4 in. (postcard size) or smaller

P001: The north face of the Magnetograph House / John George Hunter
P002: Kennedy rescuing instruments after collapse of igloo / Andrew D. Watson
P003: Nest of giant petrel / Harold Hamilton
P004: Shag on nest / Harold Hamilton
P005: Nest and eggs of skua gull. Megalestris maccormicki. Cape Denison / John George Hunter
P006: Snow petrel in front of nest / John George Hunter
P007: John George Hunter / Andrew D. Watson
P008: Percy Gray / Andrew D. Watson
P009: Sydney Evan Jones / Andrew D. Watson
P010: Morton Moyes / Andrew D. Watson
P011: Archie McLean / Andrew D. Watson
P012: Charles Archibald Hoadley / Andrew D. Watson
P013: Charles Harrisson / Andrew D. Watson
P014: Frank Wild / Andrew D. Watson
P015: Clarence Petersen de la Motte / Andrew D. Watson
P016: Alec Kennedy / Andrew D. Watson
P017: Watson and dog on the Shackleton Shelf / Andrew D. Watson
P018: Wild in fancy dress / Andrew D. Watson
P019: Wild and Watson in sleeping bags in tent on sledge journey / Andrew D. Watson
P020: West Base Party at Midwinter's Day dinner. The Grottoes / Andrew D. Watson
P021: West Base Party at Midwinter's Day dinner. The Grottoes / Andrew D. Watson
P022: West Base Party, group / Andrew D. Watson
P023: Jones in his cubicle / Andrew D. Watson
P024: Wild reading in bed. The Grottoes / Andrew D. Watson
P025: Watson on night watch / Andrew D. Watson
P026: Kennedy reading in his cubicle / Andrew D. Watson
P027: Group photo of West Base Party on deck of the Aurora before landing in Queen Mary Land / Andrew D. Watson
P028: Jones party on return from Gauss Berg / Andrew D. Watson
P029: Snow petrels mating, Queen Mary Land / Andrew D. Watson
P030: John George Hunter / John George Hunter
P031: Herbert Dyce Murphy / John George Hunter
P032: Walter Hannam / John George Hunter
P033: Wild's sledge party on return to The Grottoes / Andrew D. Watson
P034: Chief engineer Gillies on deck / John George Hunter
P035: Cruise, 1911-1912 / Andrew D. Watson (not digitised, missing as of 2020)
P036: Wild tests the sea-ice for suitability for ice-anchorage / Andrew D. Watson
P037: Icing ship in the pack ice / Andrew D. Watson
P038: Cruise, 1911-1912 / Andrew D. Watson (not digitised, missing as of 2020)
P039: Icing ship. Feeding the ice melter / Andrew D. Watson
P040: Icing ship. Hauling basket of ice on board / Andrew D. Watson
P041: Wooden stock fitted to anchor in place of that lost at Macquarie Island / Andrew D. Watson
P042: View of Mount Elder and the Nuggets / Arthur John Sawyer
P043: Wireless Hill and North Head from North East Bay / John King Davis
P044: Adelie penguin on eggs / John George Hunter
P045: Wild in fancy dress as Sir Walter Raleigh. En route to Antarctica / Andrew D. Watson
P046: Flaying a seal on the floe ice. Queen Mary Land coast / Andrew D. Watson
P047: S.Y. Aurora leaving West Base, Queen Mary Land. Mass of ice broke off the Shackleton Shelf a few moments earlier / Andrew D. Watson
P048: The Aurora sets her face towards Hobart after landing the West Base Party on the Shackleton Shelf / Andrew D. Watson
P049: The Aurora leaves the West Base / Andrew D. Watson
P050: A good-bye cheer on departure from West Base / Andrew D. Watson
P051: Dipping the flag on departure from West Base / Andrew D. Watson
P052: The thermometer and hygrometer screen adjacent to Winter Quarters, Cape Denison / John George Hunter
P053: Adelie penguin rookery near Main Base Hut / John George Hunter
P054: The Wireless Station at Macquarie Island in winter / Arthur John Sawyer
P055: The Wireless Station at Macquarie Island in winter / Arthur John Sawyer
P056: Engine shed and wireless house on top of Macquarie Island / Andrew D. Watson
P057: Wireless House on top of Macquarie Island / Andrew D. Watson
P058: Adelie penguin turning eggs / John George Hunter
P060: Amongst the serac ice of the lower Denman Glacier / Andrew D. Watson
P061: In the shatter zone of the lower Denman Glacier / Andrew D. Watson
P062: Hauling sledges through the fractured zone of the lower Denman Glacier / Andrew D. Watson
P063: Fractured zone of the lower Denman Glacier / Andrew D. Watson
P064: Helping sledges along through the broken zone of the lower Denman Glacier / Andrew D. Watson
P065: Camp near Mount Barr Smith / Andrew D. Watson
P066: Amongst fractured ice of the lower Denman Glacier / Andrew D. Watson
P067: At Avalanche Rocks, Queen Mary Land / Andrew D. Watson
P068: A difficult prospect on the lower Denman Glacier / Andrew D. Watson
P069: The end of trail track across the lower Denman Glacier / Andrew D. Watson
P070: Christmas celebration at Possession Rocks, Queen Mary Land / Andrew D. Watson
P071: Gillies Nunatak, the south one / Andrew D. Watson
P072: The serac ice of the lower Denman Glacier / Andrew D. Watson
P073: Seawater visible in cracks in the broken zone of the lower Denman Glacier / Andrew D. Watson
P074: The Grottoes just after building completed / Andrew D. Watson
P075: Serac ice of the lower Denman Glacier / Andrew D. Watson
P076: Iceberg with muck and stones, sighted off Knox Land / Andrew D. Watson


P077: Broken zone of the lower Denman Glacier / Andrew D. Watson
P078: Bergs frozen in the floe ice in the neighbourhood of The Grottoes / Andrew D. Watson
P079: The more northerly of the Gillies Nunataks / Andrew D. Watson
P080: Depot A, Queen Mary Land / Andrew D. Watson
P081: Shelf ice wall / Andrew D. Watson
P082: At Possession Rocks, Queen Mary Land / Andrew D. Watson
P083: In the broken zone of the Lower Denman Glacier / Andrew D. Watson
P084: The bergschrund, Lower Denman Glacier / Andrew D. Watson
P085: Cutting a passage across the bergschrund zone of the lower Denman Glacier / Andrew D. Watson
P086: Shelf ice / Andrew D. Watson
P087: Possession Rocks, Queen Mary Land / Andrew D. Watson
P088: The end of the trail into the broken zone of the Denman Glacier / Andrew D. Watson
P089: The great bergschrund, lower Denman Glacier / Andrew D. Watson
P090: Broken zone of the lower Denman Glacier / Andrew D. Watson
P091: Kelp covered reefs on the north side of Hasselborough Bay / Douglas Mawson
P092: A baby sea-elephant on coarse kelp, Macquarie Island / Douglas Mawson
P093: Constructing the Engine House building on Wireless Hill, Macquarie Island / Douglas Mawson
P094: The flying-fox from Aerial Cove to summit of hill / Douglas Mawson
P095: The Aurora at anchor seen from Aerial Cove / Douglas Mawson
P096: Fog bank over Macquarie Island, viewed off the north east coast / Douglas Mawson
P097: The flying-fox from Aerial Cove. A load going up / Douglas Mawson
P098: Tent at Aerial Cove below the flying-fox / Douglas Mawson
P099: General view from the Aerial Cove camp looking up to the top of Wireless Hill / Douglas Mawson
P100: Erecting the bottom section of a mast on Wireless Hill / Douglas Mawson
P101: A mast going up on aerial to summit of Wireless Hill / Douglas Mawson
P102: The flying-fox seen from Aerial Cove / Douglas Mawson
P103: Making a track through the fractured zone of the lower Denman Glacier / Andrew D. Watson
P104: Hauling gear up the face of the Shackleton Shelf at The Grottoes / Andrew D. Watson
P105: A case of biscuits being received at the top of the cliff / Andrew D. Watson
P106: The lower station on the floe ice of the aerial at The Grottoes / Andrew D. Watson
P107: The dogs tethered out at The Grottoes / Andrew D. Watson
P108: The Grottoes Hut soon after erection / Andrew D. Watson
P109: The Grottoes Hut almost completed / Andrew D. Watson
P110: The Grottoes Hut just after completion / Andrew D. Watson
P111: The frame of The Grottoes Hut erected / Andrew D. Watson
P112: At work on the frame of The Grottoes Hut / Andrew D. Watson
P113: Alligator Nunatak from the north east side, taken about January 2nd on the return of the Eastern sledging party / Andrew D. Watson
P114: The flying-fox at The Grottoes / Percy Gray
P115: Hauling the dogs up the flying-fox at The Grottoes / Andrew D. Watson
P116: Looking southward towards Icy Point. The Grottoes locality / John King Davis
P117: Face of the Mertz Glacier Tongue / Douglas Mawson
P118: The bold face of the Mertz Glacier Tongue / Douglas Mawson
P119: Barrier ice wall and pack floes / Andrew D. Watson
P120: Rock in Royal penguin rookery grooved by claws of penguins / Harold Hamilton
P121: Dogs tethered out on Macquarie Island / Douglas Mawson
P122: Baby sea-elephants on the beach, Macquarie Island / Douglas Mawson
P123: A baby sea-elephant alarmed, Macquarie Island / Douglas Mawson
P124: Young sea-elephants on the beach, Macquarie Island / Arthur John Sawyer
P125: Female sea-elephant suckling their young / Arthur John Sawyer
P126: Sea-leopard asleep on the beach, Macquarie Island / Arthur John Sawyer
P127: Baby sea-elephants on the beach, Macquarie Island / Douglas Mawson
P128: Baby sea-elephant on the beach, Macquarie Island / Douglas Mawson
P129: Large sea-elephant showing trunk torn in fighting / Harold Hamilton
P130: Victoria penguin rookery at Garden Bay, Macquarie Island / Charles A. Sandell
P131: Victoria pengin rookery at Garden Bay / Charles A. Sandell
P132: Hauling stores up to the top of the Shackleton Shelf / Andrew D. Watson
P133: The flying-fox from the floe to the top of the Shackleton Shelf / John King Davis
P134: Landing the West Base Party, view on the summit of the Shackleton Shelf / Andrew D. Watson
P135: On the floe ice near the Shackleton Shelf / Andrew D. Watson
P136: The brink of the Shackleton Shelf ice at the flying-fox / Andrew D. Watson
P137: Looking towards the Isthmus from Aerial Cove, Macquarie Island / Douglas Mawson
P138: Amongst the rocky reefs near Aerial Cove, Macquarie Island / Douglas Mawson
P139: The rocky shore west of Aerial Cove, Macquarie Island / Douglas Mawson
P140: Preparing to send the dogs to the top of the Shackleton Shelf by means of the flying-fox / Andrew D. Watson
P141: Sledging stores from the ship to the foot of the flying-fox, Shackleton Shelf / Andrew D. Watson
P142: A heavy fall of snow just after completion of the Hut at The Grottoes / Andrew D. Watson
P143: West Base stores partially buried by a fall of snow just after completion of the Hut at The Grottoes / Andrew D. Watson
P144: West Base stores partially buried by a fall of snow just before there was time to sort out and stack them / Andrew D. Watson
P145: The flying-fox on the face of the Shackleton Shelf / Andrew D. Watson
P146: Weddell seals basking on the floe ice by a lane of water in the vicinity of The Grottoes / Andrew D. Watson
P147: Loose pack ice. Note the underwater toe of the piece of floe ice in the foreground / John King Davis
P148: In loose pack-ice / John King Davis
P149: In loose pack-ice / John King Davis
P150: Reconnoitring the floe to the west of the Shackleton Shelf, just prior to deciding to land the West Base Party at the junction of the floe and shelf ice / John King Davis
P151: S.Y) Aurora alongside the floe ice at the Western Base / John King Davis
P152: Ship at Western Base. Dragging stores to the flying-fox / John King Davis
P153: Ship at floe, Western Base / John King Davis
P154: Icing ship in pack-ice / John King Davis
P155: An iceberg / Douglas Mawson
P156: Small bergs and pack on the horizon / Douglas Mawson
P157: Tabular bergs on left in distance, smaller ice in the centre horizon / Douglas Mawson
P158: Berg showing successive old water lines / Douglas Mawson
P159: Sledging gear from the ship at the corner of the floe ice and shelf ice, Western Base. At the moment the floe is rapidly breaking up / Andrew D. Watson
P160: Moraine off Avalanche Point / Andrew D. Watson
P161: Snow cornice, edge Shackleton Shelf / Andrew D. Watson
P162: Pressure phenomena, Hippo Nunatak / Andrew D. Watson
P163: Snow cornice on edge Shackleton Shelf / Andrew D. Watson
P164: Off David Island / Andrew D. Watson
P165: On Delay Point, looking towards the Hippo / Andrew D. Watson
P166: Ice crushing past the Hippo / Andrew D. Watson
P167: Junction Corner, Shackleton Shelf / Andrew D. Watson
P168: Blue ice and white neve bands at Icy Point / Andrew D. Watson
P169: Ablation measurements, Shackleton Shelf / Andrew D. Watson
P170: Wild and Kennedy setting out to relieve Jones' Party. Icy Cape in view / Andrew D. Watson
P171: Traversing the serac ice of the lower Denman Glacier / Andrew D. Watson
P172: On the Hippo Nunatak / Andrew D. Watson
P173: Snow cornice and dump along wall of the Shackleton Shelf / Andrew D. Watson
P174: Neve formation in ravine leading from Shackleton Shelf to the floe / Andrew D. Watson
P175: Wild skiing down a snow ramp near The Grottoes / Andrew D. Watson
P176: Pressure past the Hippo Nunatak / Andrew D. Watson
P177: On grounded dead ice between the Denman Glacier and Shackleton Shelf / Andrew D. Watson
P178: Crevasse with lid fallen in. On land ice slopes south of The Grottoes about 4 miles from land edge. Fell in just before photographed / Andrew D. Watson
P179: Crevasse with lid fallen in. On land ice slopes south of The Grottoes about 4 miles from land edge. Fell in just before photographed / Andrew D. Watson
P180: The junction between Denman Glacier and Shackleton Shelf
P181: Crushed shelf ice / Andrew D. Watson
P182: In serac ice of the lower Denman Glacier / Andrew D. Watson
P183: Serac ice. Lower Denman Glacier / Andrew D. Watson
P184: Serac ice. Lower Denman Glacier / Andrew D. Watson
P185: Margin of the Denman Glacier / Andrew D. Watson
P186: Start of the first depot journey. The Grottoes / Andrew D. Watson
P187: In tunnel to verandah. The Grottoes / Andrew D. Watson
P188: Hippo Nunatak / Andrew D. Watson
P189: A band of Adelie penguins met on the floe to west of The Grottoes / Andrew D. Watson
P190: The weathered igloo over ice-shaft. The Grottoes / Andrew D. Watson
P191: Igloo over shaft. The Grottoes / Andrew D. Watson
P192: The Hut and Boat Harbour at Cape Denison / John George Hunter
P193: Kennedy excavating magnetic igloo after collapse in blizzard. The Grottoes / Andrew D. Watson
P194: Moraine off Delay Point / Andrew D. Watson
P195: The Grottoes in springtime / Andrew D. Watson
P196: Taking magnetic observations on the inland ice-slopes south of The Grottoes, spring journey / Andrew D. Watson
P197: The prospect at Junction Corner, Queen Mary Land / Andrew D. Watson
P198: Distant view of Delay Point / Andrew D. Watson
P199: Face of the Shackleton Shelf / Andrew D. Watson
P200: A grotto in the face of the Shackleton Shelf / Andrew D. Watson
P201: Watson's Bluff on David Island / Andrew D. Watson
P202: Broken ice on the marginal zone of Shackleton Shelf / Andrew D. Watson
P203: Crumpled shelf-ice against David Island / Andrew D. Watson
P204: Distant view of Avalanche Cliff / Andrew D. Watson
P205: Sledge-dogs sit with their backs to the wind near Delay Point, Queen Mary Land / Andrew D. Watson
P206: Hoisting wireless masts at The Grottoes / Andrew D. Watson
P207: Harrisson and Watson play draughts. The Grottoes / Andrew D. Watson
P208: Hoadley and Watson measure the amount of snow precipitation on the bamboo pole. Near The Grottoes / Andrew D. Watson
P209: Excavating a tunnel from The Grottoes to the outer air. From left to right: Kennedy, Jones, Wild / Andrew D. Watson
P210: Constructing a tunnel ramp to The Grottoes, Hut / Andrew D. Watson
P211: Breaking a way out from The Grottoes Hut after a blizzard / Andrew D. Watson
P212: The Grottoes in spring / Andrew D. Watson
P213: The start on the first depot laying journey from The Grottoes. Left to right: Wild, Jones, Dovers, Moyes, Harrisson, Hoadley / Andrew D. Watson
P214: Taken on Wild's main sledge journey from The Grottoes, showing the whole party and sledges excepting Watson who took the photo / Andrew D. Watson
P215: On the Shackleton Shelf near the western face / Andrew D. Watson
P216: Camp 16 on the eastern journey from The Grottoes / Andrew D. Watson
P217: Hoadley at the snowfall measuring pole, near The Grottoes / Andrew D. Watson
P218: Snow stalactites in the lee of the Shackleton Shelf / Andrew D. Watson
P219: Icebergs / John George Hunter
P220: A table-topped berg / John George Hunter
P221: The northern edge of the pack-ice / John George Hunter
P222: The shore of the Boat Harbour at Cape Denison in winter / John George Hunter
P223: Icebergs / John George Hunter
P224: An iceberg / John George Hunter
P225: An iceberg / John George Hunter
P226: Watson and Jones in tunnel to The Grottoes / Andrew D. Watson
P227: Watson and his special dog at The Grottoes / Andrew D. Watson
P228: The Grottoes Hut taken from up the wireless mast / Andrew D. Watson
P229: Watson reclining in his cubicle at The Grottoes / Andrew D. Watson
P230: A floe berg / John George Hunter
P231: A floe berg / John George Hunter
P232: A floe berg / John George Hunter
P233: An iceberg / John George Hunter
P234: Seal on pack ice / John George Hunter
P235: Icebergs / John George Hunter
P236: Iceberg / John George Hunter
P237: An ice-island type of berg / John George Hunter
P238: An iceberg / John George Hunter
P239: An iceberg / John George Hunter
P240: Preparations for sledging at Cape Denison / John George Hunter
P241: The air-tractor at Cape Denison / John George Hunter
P242: Bickerton in the air-tractor at Cape Denison / John George Hunter
P243: View from Winter Quarters, Cape Denison, looking to the north north east. The air-tractor in the middle distance / John George Hunter
P244: The start of a spring sledge journey, Winter Quarters, Cape Denison. Left to right: Mertz, Murphy and Ninnis / John George Hunter
P245: The start of a summer sledging journey, Winter Quarters, Cape Denison. Left to right: Close, Stillwell and Laseron / John George Hunter
P246: Skua gulls resting on gneissic rocks at Cape Denison / John George Hunter
P247: Loose pack ice with basking seal / John George Hunter
P248: Weddell seal asleep at the Boat Harbour, Cape Denison / John George Hunter
P249: Whetter shoots a Weddell seal, Cape Denison / John George Hunter
P250: Hunter and a Weddell seal / John George Hunter
P251: Weddell seal awakened at the approach of the photographer. At the Boat Harbour, Cape Denison / John George Hunter
P252: Making friendly overtures to a Weddell seal on the bay ice, Cape Denison / John George Hunter
P253: Weddell seals basking on the shores of the Boat Harbour at Cape Denison. Winter Quarters Hut in the middle distance / John George Hunter
P254: Contemplating a great pressure-ice ridge along the bergschrund of the Denman Glacier / Andrew D. Watson
P255: The alligator Nunatak and Jones Rocks. Coast of Queen Mary Land / Andrew D. Watson
P256: Looking west in summer from the edge of the Shackleton Shelf near The Grottoes. The extended face of the large grounded berg to the west is visible on the horizon / Andrew D. Watson
P257: Robert Bage on the Aurora en route south / Andrew D. Watson
P258: Sea-elephants fighting on the beach at Macquarie Island / Harold Hamilton
P259: Sea-leopard alarmed, showing his teeth / Harold Hamilton
P260: Sea-elephant rookery, west coast Macquarie Island / Harold Hamilton (not digitised, missing as of 2020)
P261: Large bull elephant admonishing a female / Harold Hamilton
P262: An Adelie penguin rookery on east side of Cape Denison area / John George Hunter
P263: Adelie penguins on the bay ice, Cape Denison / John George Hunter
P264: A band of Adelie penguins met on the floe ice when sledging off Queen Mary Land / Andrew D. Watson
P265: Gray standing by the Monagasque Trawl / John King Davis
P266: The Spit and Wireless Hill viewed from the heights to the south / Arthur John Sawyer

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Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

The original contents list in 1959-1960 for this file notes negatives P59, P267-P274 as not received by the State Library.

In the 2020 digitisation project, negatives P35, P38, P260 in the contents list were not catalogued as they were not located.