| Summary: | Title devised by cataloguer based on label on verso.; Part of the Australian Information Service collection.; "Eric Macklin (radio operator and postmaster 1955 party at Mawson) and Bill Storer, his counterpart in the previous year, outside the post office at Mawson. The post office handles a big traffic in philatelic mail, reaching 50,000 to 60,000 letters a year. 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 March 1955, the base on Heard Island was temporarily discontinued, but in February, 1954, a station was established at Mawson, on the Antarctic mainland. The men who man these stations, the scientists, cooks, doctors, engineers, carpenters, radio operators and dog-masters are drawn from all walks of life in Australia, and stay on the bases for a year at a time. many of them return to one or another of the stations for a second, and in some cases for a third term."--Printed on label on verso.; Condition: Buckled.; "L18641"--From label on verso.; Also available online at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn6001663; Donated by Mrs Julie Carver, 2012.
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