Madigan Nunatak--Close and Laseron standing by the sledge A desolate camp on the plateau Sledging rations for three men for three months Stillwell Island--a haunt of the Silver-Grey petrel "The Bus", the air-tractor sledge Bickerton and his sledge with detachable wheels Amongst the splintered ice where the ice-sheet descends to the sea near Cape Denison The big winding-drum for the deep-sea dredging cable Fletcher with the driver loaded ready to take a sounding At the provision depot for castaways provided by the New Zealand Government, Camp Cove, Carnley Harbour, Auckland Island. Primmer on the right The brick pier erected at Port Ross, Auckland Islands, by the magneticians of Sir James Clarke Ross's Expedition The "Aurora" at anchor in Port Ross, Auckland Islands The Monagasque trawl hoisted on the derrick: Gray standing by A remarkable berg, two cusps standing on a single basement. Note that it has risen considerably out of the sea, exposing old water lines A portal worn through a berg by the waves A turreted berg A Midsummer view of the hut and its neighbourhood, looking S.E. Forging through pack-ice Members of the main base party homeward bound, January 1913. From left to right: back row, Whetter, Hurley, Webb, Hannam, Laseron, Close; front row, Stillwell, Hunter, Correll, Murphy "Wireless" Corner in the workshop. Our link with civilization The "Aurora" anchored to the floe off the western base The establishment of the western base. Hauling stores to the top of the ice-shelf The western base hut in winter. Note the entrance; a vertical hole in the snow in the foreground The western base hut--The Grottoes--in summer An evening camp, Queen Mary Land A man-hauled sledge In the veranda of the western base hut--The "Grottoes"--looking towards the entrance dug vertically down through the snow drift The wind-weathered igloo built for magnetic observations--western base Nunatak--Queen Mary Land: showing remarkable moat on windward side and ramp on lee Midwinter's dinner in Queen Mary Land, 1912. From left to right: Behind--Hoadley, Dovers, Watson, Harrisson, Wild. In Front--Jones, Moyes, Kennedy A bevy of Emperor penguins on the floe A yawning crevasse Wild's party making slow progress in dangerous country Wild, Kennedy, and Harrisson amongst the abysses of the Denman glacier "The whole was the wildest, maddest and yet the grandest thing imaginable" Wild's party working their sledges through the crushed ice at the foot of Denman glacier The Hippo Nunatak Dog-sledging Where the floe-ice meets the Shackleton Shelf The hummocky floe on the southern margin of the Davis Sea View showing the young birds massed together at the Emperor penguins' rookery at Haswell Island Antarctic petrels on the nest A Snow petrel chick on the nest A Silver-Grey petrel on the nest The symmetrically domed outline of Drygalski Island, low on the horizon. The island is 1200 feet high and 9 miles in diameter