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Preparation
Overview
Preparation: Introduction
Australia and Antarctica
Overview
The hunters
Building empires
Australia looks south
Australians under the British
Lobbying: London and Australia
Overview
The seeds of an idea
The Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science
Going public
In England
Banging the drums
Enter the Commonwealth
Grants and donations
Planning: science and logistics
Overview
Shelters from the stormy blast
A lot of hustle and bustle
Scientific equipment
Clothing, field equipment and fuel
Food
Medical equipment
Advice and training
And finally
Sources of equipment and supplies
Innovation
Overview
Mawson’s aerial plans
Signals from the South
Ice images
Selections
Overview
Wanted: brainy, enterprising, fit young men with moral qualities
The London selections
In the Antipodes
The physical scientists
The biologists
Medical men
The finger tappers
The photographer
Finding another leader
The contracts
On the small matter of payment
The Voyages
Overview
The Voyages: Introduction
Whaler turned explorer
Overview
A new role for an old workhorse
Departure from Hobart
Overview
Frantic last days
‘A galvanism in it all’
Farewell to civilization
People of Aurora
Overview
John King Davis
John H Blair
Percival Gray
Clarence Petersen de la Motte
F.J. Gillies
F.D. Fletcher
The crewmen of the Aurora
Transporting the expedition
Overview
To Antarctica!
Westward passage
Bringing them home
The final voyage
Exploring the depths
Overview
The fourth scientific base
Ship of science
The 1912 marine science cruises
Science on a heaving deck
The final AAE cruise
Postscript: Aurora’s final years
Overview
Davis, Shackleton and Aurora’s final years
Macquarie Island
Overview
Macquarie Island: Introduction
The island
Overview
A sub-Antarctic treasure
A soggy green sponge
A bloody history
Seeing things differently
Building the base
Overview
Landfall
Down to business
A fortunate mistake
Stepping the mast
Home alone
The people
Overview
George Frederick Ainsworth
Leslie Russell Blake
Harold Hamilton
Charles A. Sandell
Arthur J. Sawyer
The wireless relay
Overview
Flying blind
Contact
Wireless problems
Cape Denison comes on air
Bad news – and a breakthrough
Another year, another innovation
Field science
Overview
Unique science
Changing skies
Restless seas
Out and about
Studying shape...
...and structure
Studying the natives
Collecting the specimens
Survival
Overview
Forgotten men
An unexpected extension
Tightening the belt
Drawing together
Dashed hopes
Desperate times
Relief
Cape Denison
Overview
Cape Denison: Introduction
Building the base
Overview
A promising start
Unloading - and a warning
Bedding down the main hut
Home at 'the Hut'
Temples to science
A finishing touch
The people
Overview
Douglas Mawson
Edward Frederick Robert Bage
Cecil Thomas Madigan
Belgrave E. S. Ninnis
Xavier Mertz
Archibald Lang McLean
Francis Howard Bickerton
Alfred James Hodgeman
James Francis (Frank) Hurley
Eric Norman Webb
Percy E. Correll
John George Hunter
Charles Francis Laseron
Frank Leslie Stillwell
Herbert Dyce Murphy
Walter Henry Hannam
John Henry Collinson Close
Leslie H. Whetter
Sidney Jeffryes
At home
Overview
Life and work at Cape Denison
Magnetic fortresses
Windy, windier
The seas and the stars
Studying other lives
The wireless
Busy, busy, busy
The ups and downs of Cape Denison life
Journeys of discovery
Overview
Discovery
Pulling power
First forays
Practice runs
The Near East
Panoramas and perils
Trudging to nowhere
On the knife-edge
Westward ho!
Mawson’s fatal journey
Overview
A splendid march
Catastrophe
The death of Mertz
Alone
Hanging by a thread
Last gasp
Another winter
Overview
A difficult parting
Castaways
What to do?
Missing friends
News from home
Radio waves
Keeping boredom at bay
Homeward
Western Party
Overview
Western Party: Introduction
Shackleton Ice Shelf and Queen Mary Land
Overview
Floating fortresses
No place like home
Early encounters
Enter Aurora
Building the base
Overview
'Anything was worth investigation'
Getting ashore
Down to work
Magnificent desolation
The people
Overview
Frank Wild
Andrew Douglas Watson
Sydney Evan Jones
Charles Turnbull Harrisson
Morton Henry Moyes
Alexander Lorimer Kennedy
Charles Archibald Hoadley
George Harris Sarjeant Dovers
The Grottoes
Overview
Getting the house in order
The magnetician’s trials
The Grottoes: Construction
Building the team
A plan gone wrong
Alone on the ice shelf
Waiting for Aurora
The ship arrives
New lands
Overview
Wild’s plans
Autumn reconnaissance
Preparing for spring
Investigating the ice shelf
Adventures on the sea ice
The serious work begins: the Eastern Sledge Journey
Frustration upon frustration
Westward ho!
Homecoming
Overview
Homecoming: Introduction
Celebrating Mawson’s homecoming
Overview
Signs of civilisation
Applause
A wedding with a difference
Now, down to work
Lost in the deluge
Marriage, knighthood, war and other tasks
Overview
Beating drums
America beckons
Awards and rewards
Battles at home and abroad
Lives in turmoil
National Heritage
Overview
National Heritage: Introduction
The physical remains: Mawson’s Huts
Overview
Cape Denison landscape
Main Hut
Magnetograph House
Absolute Magnetic Hut
Transit Hut
Memorial cross and plaque
Proclamation pole and plaque
Artefacts
Scientific collections and data: Science and the AAE
Scientific reports
Overview
Series A: Geography, Geology, Glaciology
Series B: Meteorology, Aural Observations, Wireless Observations, Magnetics, Tides
Series C: Zoology, Botany, Bacteriology
The scientific and political legacy
Overview
The scientific era begins
Australian Antarctic Territory defined
ANARE is created
Australian Antarctic Division established
Mawson Station established
The Antarctic work expands
A commitment to Antarctica
Heritage values
Overview
National heritage values
Commonwealth heritage values
Natural heritage values
Conservation
Overview
First efforts
Project Blizzard
Mawson’s Huts Foundation
The future
Protection and management
Overview
Antarctic Treaty and Protocol on Environmental Protection
National and Commonwealth heritage
Mawson’s Huts Historic Site Management Plan
Resources
Overview
Cape Denison databases
Websites about Antarctica's cultural heritage
Websites about Douglas Mawson
Video collection
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