The exploration party in a DUKW making their way up a long inlet near the Vestfold Hills, Antarctica, 1955 [picture] /

• Main Author: Lowe, George, 1924-
• Other Authors: Australian News and Information Bureau.
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1955. 1955
• Subjects: Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition; 1955 > Photographs; GMC Duck (Military truck) > Photographs; Glaciers > Antarctica > Photographs; Antarctica > Discovery and exploration > Australian > Photographs; Antarctic; Antarctic Ocean; Heard Island; Kista; Long Inlet; Lowe; Rocky Hills; The Antarctic; Vestfold; Vestfold Hills; Antarc*; Antarctica; Macquarie Island
• Online Access: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn6001660

Title devised by cataloguer based on label on verso.; Part of the Australian Information Service collection.; "We poked our way carefully up a long inlet. One of the party sits forward to fend off ice floes and to guide the DUKW around submerged boulders. 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. In January 1955, Kista Dan, enroute from Heard Island station to Mawson stopped at three points on the continental coastline to allow exploratory parties ashore. One of these points was the Vestfold Hills, a strange, ice-free region of rocky hills first revealed in aerial photographs by American fliers some years ago. It was to explore and examine more closely this interesting region that the ANARE party put ashore."--Printed on label on verso.; Condition: Buckled.; "L18601"--From label on verso.; Also available online at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn6001660; Donated by Mrs Julie Carver, 2012.