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Returning to Australia, the Wyatt Earp called in at Macquarie Island, where naval LST 3501 had landed a unit of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition for a winter stay, c. 1950s
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Expedition member overlooking West Bay and Atlas Cove at Heard Island, c. 1950s
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Macquarie Island, 1955. A wandering albatross and its chick. These birds are very tame and seem to like human company
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Macquarie Island, 1955. Elephant seal bull
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Macquarie Island. Aurora Australis (1955)
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"Penguin Road" Heard Island. This narrow 'road' was formed by millions of Macaroni Penguins migrating inshore from the sea, c. 1950s
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Light mantled sooty albatrosses at Macquarie Island, c. 1950s
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Sea elephants and royal penguins, Macquarie Island, c. 1950s
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Group Captain S.A. Campbell (centre) officially opening the first Australian Post Office to be set up in Antarctica. Assistant is L. Macey, Coogee, New South Wales, Chief Radio Operator at Heard Island, c. 1950s
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Penguins on the beach and the remains of the wreck of "The Gratitude", Nuggets Beach, Macquarie Island, 1911
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Mushroom ice formation, 1912 / Frank Hurley
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Frank Bickerton at Land's End, near Commonwealth Bay, Antarctica, c.1912, photograph by Frank Hurley
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Cavern carved by the sea in an ice wall near Commonwealth Bay, 1911-1914
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A radiant turret lit by the midsummer midnight sun
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The Air-tractor / photographed by Frank Hurley
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Huskies pulling sledge
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Hamilton hand-netting for macro-plankton from Aurora / by Frank Hurley
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Arthur Sawyer & sea elephant pup
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Skeleton of sea-elephant & Harold Hamilton
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Aurora traversing loose pack ice entering the Durville Sea, Dec. 1913
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Australian Antarctic Expedition members in the kitchen, 1911-1914
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Frank Hurley washing cinematograph film on the "Aurora"
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Start of the first Depot Journey; "The Grottoes"
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Wild & Watson in sleeping bag tent on sledge journey
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Mawson rests at the side of sledge, outward bound on first sledge journey in Adelie Land
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Mertz leaving the hut by the trapdoor on the verandah roof
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Blizzard, the pup in Antarctica / photograph by Frank Hurley
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Ice cased Adelie penguins after a blizzard at Cape Denison, c. 1912, photograph by Frank Hurley
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Frozen Adelie, Antarctica, 1911-1914 / photograph by Frank Hurley
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Shags defending nest, Macquarie Island / photograph by Harold Hamilton