Beyond the heroic stereotype: Sidney Jeffryes and the mythologising of Australian Antarctic history

• Main Authors: Leane, E, Maddison, B, Norris, K
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Australian National University 2019
• Subjects: History and Archaeology; Historical Studies; Australian History (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History); Antarctic; East Antarctica; Commonwealth Bay; Antarc*; Antarctica; Huskies
• Online Access: http://australianhumanitiesreview.org/2019/05/27/beyond-the-heroic-stereotype-sidney-jeffryes-and-the-mythologising-of-australian-antarctic-history/; http://ecite.utas.edu.au/133275

In 2010 the Australian Antarctic Names and Medals Committee announced that it had named a glacier near Commonwealth Bay in East Antarctica in honour of Sidney Jeffryes. Jeffryes was a member of Douglas Mawsons Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE), 1911-14, and the decision to attach his name to a...