The amphibious DUKW's clambering ashore on the rocky slopes of the harbour, Antarctica, 1955 [picture] /

• Other Authors: Australian News and Information Bureau.
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1955. 1955
• Subjects: Antarctica > Discovery and exploration > Australian > Photographs; Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition; 1955 > Photographs; GMC Duck (Military truck) > Photographs; Glaciers > Antarctica > Photographs; Antarctic; Antarctic Ocean; Kista; Lowe; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; Macquarie Island
• Online Access: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn6001489

Title devised by cataloguer based on label on verso.; Part of the Australian Information Service collection.; "One of the two amphibious DUKW's which accompanied the 1955 expedition to Mawson clambering ashore on the rocky slopes of the harbour. Australian Official Photograph by George Lowe."--Printed on label on verso.; "Between December and March each year, at the height of the brief Antarctic summer, the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition relief ship Kista Dan visits the three Australian Antarctic Scientific Research stations on Heard and Macquarie Island and at Mawson on the Antarctic mainland. On February 9 this year she pulled into the tiny harbour at Mawson. During the next three weeks she offloaded 450 tons of stores, and the men of the old and new parties completed an extensive building programme which more than doubled the number of buildings on the station."--Printed on label on verso.; Condition: Buckled and yellowing.; "L18563"--From label on verso.; Also available online at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn6001489; Donated by Mrs Julie Carver, 2012.