• Title
  Series 186: Australia in the Antarctic
• Call number
  PXE 731/1876-1915
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  1950s
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  412531
• Physical Description
  40 photographic prints - 20 x 25 cm or smaller - silver gelatin
  
• 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.
• Name
  Kista Dan (Ship)
  Law, Philip
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions.
  
• Topic
  interiors
  aerial views
  balloons
  buildings, structures & establishments
  cabbages
  carcasses
  clouds
  engines
  glaciers
  goggles
  harbours
  huskies
  icebergs
  iceshelves
  islands
  McCormick skuas
  maps
  meteorological equipment
  mountains
  pack-ice
  penguins
  plants
  rookeries
  seagulls
  ships
  skis
  sledges
  snow
  snowploughs
  tractors
  volcanoes
  
• Place
  Antarctica.
  Heard Island (Antarctica)
  Macquarie Island (Antarctica)
  Mawson (Antarctica)
  Queen Maud Land (Antarctica)
  
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