Documents

This is were you will be able to find Historical | AAT Operations| Published documents of interest | relating to Antarctica, Heard and McDonald Islands and Macquarie Island

Historical - Australian Antarctic Territory

• Relief Model of Antarctica, 1934
  The relief model of Antarctica was prepared by the Department of Interior, Canberra ACT, and displayed during 1934 in both Canberra and Melbourne. Reported to have been constructed of cork and fibrous plaster in thirteen sections, it was funded by Melburnian, Sir MacPherson Robertson. The model's dimensions were some 11 feet in diameter, 3 feet deep, on a platform 2 feet high.
• Donald Franklin Styles (1964), Coastal Exploration of Kemp and Enderby Lands, Antarctica, Antarctic Division, Department of External Affairs, Melbourne, May 1964 (Styles was Assistant Director Antarctic Division, and between 1958 and 1973 led a number of voyages to Antarctica).

Historical - Heard and McDonald Islands

• Expedition to the Australian territory of HEARD & McDONALD ISLANDS , 1980 with photos courtesy Ted Graham (several by John Manning of Walrus aircraft recovery identified individually), plus additional photos.

• The Heard Island Walrus (RAAF Supermarine Walrus 11 HD874 Snow Goose) by Laurie McLean.

Historical - Macquarie Island

• Report of Auroral Baseline Survey, Macquarie Island, 1958; an unpublished, undated, 5 page report by JD Lines with accompanying photographs, station summaries and a diagram of the coastal Tellurometer traverse between North Head and South West Point on Macquarie Island, Division of National Mapping, Department of National Development, Canberra.
• Macquarie Island Survey Program, Field Work Report, November-December 1996.

Published documents of interest

• Mapping a Stateless Continent, a 2017 paper by John Manning, in which he described Antarctica as a stateless continent never having had an indigenous population, nor a permanent colonial occupation that exercised political or economic control. Consequently, it has had no clear single ownership or governance, and mapping has come from a number of contributing sources.

• John Manning's 2010 paper The 1939 Australian Map of Antarctica was published in The Globe No 65 (the Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Map Society). A copy of this paper from the Mapping Sciences Institute, Australia website is available at this link.

• The influence of individuals in the shaping of Australian Antarctic policy 1900-1991 by Dr John Manning is available via this link.

• July 1997 article on Syd Kirkby.

• Syd Kirkby, Australian surveyor and Antarctic explorer, on the Australian Antarctic Division's website.

• Syd Kirkby, Australian surveyor and Antarctic explorer.