EARLY HISTORICAL PHOTOGRAPHS ASSOCIATED WITH
MAWSON BASE, ANTARCTICA,
(GENERALLY COURTESY AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL ANTARCTIC RESEACH EXPEDITION)
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Kista Dan in Horseshoe Harbour, 1954 (by Louis Macey from Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW) When photograph taken the site that became Mawson Station was still just bare rock; to the left of the ship the Auster aircraft can just be identified. |
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Aerial view of Horseshoe Harbour, Mawson Station site, February 1954 (by Phillip Law) |
Dover's Island emergency camp, Mawson 1954 (by Phillip Law) |
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Establishment of Mawson station on 13 February 1954 (by Richard Hugh Thompson) |
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Mawson station site 1954 (by Phillip Law) |
Mawson station establishment 1954 (by Phillip Law) |
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Kista Dan in Horseshoe Harbour Mawson 1955 (by Phillip Law) |
Mawson station site 1955 (by Phillip Law) |
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Mawson station site 1955 (by George Lowe) |
Weasel being recovered from slotting near Mawson 1955 (by Fred Elliott) |
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Open No.3 Weasel and barge caravan with Mt Henderson in the background, 1954 (by Louis Macey from Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW) |
Dog team starting out from Mawson on western traverse 1954 (by Bruce Stinear) |
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Robert Dovers taking an astrofix near Stinear Nunataks 1954 (by Robert Summers) |
Weasel loaded with fuel drums 1954 (by Robert Dovers) |
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Weasel towing sled loaded with fuel drums 1954 (by Robert Summers) |
Robert Dovers inspecting the Weasel track wheels 1954 (by Robert Summers) |
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de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver and field party at King Edward Ice Shelf 1956 (by John Seaton) |
Scullin Monolith 1983 (by Robert Reeves) |