[Exhibition Review] Traversing Antarctica: The Australian experience

• Main Author: Antonello, Alessandro
• Format: Review
• Language: English
• Published: National Museum of Australia Press
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; New Zealand; Commonwealth Bay; Antarc*; Antarctica; Australian Antarctic Division
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/262823; https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/262823/3/01_Antonello_Exhibition_Review_-_Traversing_2012.pdf.jpg

One hundred years ago Douglas Mawson and the men of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition set sail from Hobart for Antarctica. They landed at Commonwealth Bay on 8 January 1911, establishing not merely a base, but making the first specifically Australian place upon the ice. Despite earlier Australia...