FRANK HURLEY: This happened half a century ago,
and well do I remember the day back in 1911 when I applied
to fill the vacancy of official photographer to the Mawson expedition.
The Mawson expedition was the first Australian expedition
to Antarctica and I think that everybody who carried a
camera applied for that job. I had spent my teenage life
in the steel works at Lithgow. I was a good mechanic
and I had turned my hobby, photography, into my profession.
I think the combination impressed Dr Mawson, for
two days later he sent me a wire from Adelaide,
"You are accepted." Now let us turn back the clock
- the summer of 1911.