Alf Howard

Alf Howard , (Fig. 1) died on 4 July 2010. He was the last surviving member of Sir Douglas Mawson's 1929–1931 British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) that made further extensive claims to sovereignty defining the limits of what was to become Australian Antarc...

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Published in:Polar Record
Main Author: Bemrose, Anna
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2011
Subjects:
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Ecology
Geography, Planning and Development
Antarctic
Australian Antarctic Territory
New Zealand
Alf
Dundee
Antarc*
Polar Record
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247410000422
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247410000422
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Summary:Alf Howard , (Fig. 1) died on 4 July 2010. He was the last surviving member of Sir Douglas Mawson's 1929–1931 British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) that made further extensive claims to sovereignty defining the limits of what was to become Australian Antarctic Territory (AAT) in 1933. He was also the last survivor to have served aboard the coal-fired three-masted wooden ship Discovery built in Dundee for Captain Robert Falcon Scott's 1901–1904 National Antarctic Expedition.

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