The Home of the Blizzard: Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914Mawson, Douglas, Sir
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The Home of the Blizzard: Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
Mawson, Douglas, Sir
Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration; Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914)
Beneath the surface of the plateau. Bage preparing a meal in Aladdin's
Cave in August
Laseron and Hunter using the collapsible steel handcart in preparing for
dredging on the frozen sea
Greenland Sledging Dogs--"John Bull" and "Ginger"--tethered on the rocks
adjacent to the hut
The Mackellar islets viewed from an elevation of 800 feet on the
mainland
Snow Petrels preparing to nest, Cape Denison
A Snow Petrel on the nest
Adelie penguins diving into the sea in quest of food
Adelie penguins jumping on to the floe
Mertz in an icy ravine
Mertz and Ninnis arrive with the dogs at Aladdin's Cave
Mertz emerging from Aladdin's Cave
A team of dogs eagerly following Ninnis
The dogs enjoy their work
Speeding east
A distant view of Aurora Peak from the west
Lieutenant B. E. S. Ninnis, R.F.
Mertz, Ninnis, and Mawson erecting the tent in a high wind
A later stage in erection of the tent in a wind (one man is inside)
Dr. Xavier Mertz
Pages from Dr. Mertz' diary
Mawson emerging from his makeshift tent
The half-sledge used in the last stage of Mawson's journey
"...The long journey was at an end--a terrible chapter of my life was
finished!"
The southern supporting party on the plateau. Hunter, Murphy and Laseron
The southern and supporting parties building a depot on the plateau
Depot made by the southern and supporting parties at a point 67 miles
south of Commonwealth Bay. Murphy, Laseron, and Hunter packing sledge in
the foreground; Bage in the distance
A rough sledging surface of high Sastrugi encountered by the southern
party 200 miles S.S.E. of the hut
Farthest south camp of southern party, 17 "minutes" (about 50 miles)
from the South Magnetic Pole. Bage near sledge; Webb taking set of
magnetic observations behind snow barricade
Sastrugi furrowed by the mighty winds of the plateau, 250 miles S.S.E.
of winter quarters, Adelie Land
Under reefed sail. Southern party 290 miles S.S.E. of winter quarters,
Adelie Land
Hurley in sledging gear
Correll on the edge of a ravine in the ice sheet
Madigan's, Murphy's, and Stillwell's parties breaking camp at Aladdin's
Cave at the commencement of the summer journeys
The surface of the continental ice sheet in the coastal region where it
is badly crevassed
Working the sledge through broken sea ice, 46 miles off King George V
Land. Madigan, Correll and McLean
The "Organ-Pipes" of Horn Bluff (1000 feet in height) pushing out from
the mainland
Madigan, Correll and McLean camped below the cliffs of Horn Bluff (1000
FEET IN height). Columnar Dolerite is seen surmounting a sedimentary
series partly buried in the talus-slope
An outcrop of a sedimentary formation containing bands of coal
projecting through the talus slope below the columnar dolerite at Horn
Bluff
The face of a granite outcrop near penguin point. At its base is a tide
crack and ice foot
The granite cliffs at Penguin Point where Cape Pigeon and Silver Petrel
rookeries were found; the site of New Year's Camp
[VOLUME II]
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