Beyond the heroic stereotype: Sidney Jeffryes and the mythologising of Australian Antarctic history
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 Mawson’s Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE), 1911-14, and the decision to attach his name to...
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ftunivtasmania:oai:eprints.utas.edu.au:45396 2023-05-15T13:41:50+02:00 Beyond the heroic stereotype: Sidney Jeffryes and the mythologising of Australian Antarctic history Leane, E Maddison, B Norris, K 2019 application/pdf https://eprints.utas.edu.au/45396/ https://eprints.utas.edu.au/45396/2/133275%20-%20Beyond%20the%20heroic%20stereotype.pdf http://australianhumanitiesreview.org/2019/05/27/beyond-the-heroic-stereotype-sidney-jeffryes-and-the-mythologising-of-australian-antarctic-history/ en eng Australian National University https://eprints.utas.edu.au/45396/2/133275%20-%20Beyond%20the%20heroic%20stereotype.pdf Leane, E orcid:0000-0002-7954-6529 , Maddison, B and Norris, K orcid:0000-0003-3661-2749 2019 , 'Beyond the heroic stereotype: Sidney Jeffryes and the mythologising of Australian Antarctic history' , Australian Humanities Review, vol. 64 , pp. 1-23 . Australian Antarctic history and historiography Australian Antarctic expedition Sidney Jeffryes Douglas Mawson exploration history and memorialization Article PeerReviewed 2019 ftunivtasmania 2022-03-21T23:16:38Z 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 Mawson’s Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE), 1911-14, and the decision to attach his name to an Antarctic feature, coming just before the centenary of the AAE’s departure, reflected a gradual historical revisionism around the expedition occurring at this time. Seeking to ‘honour … historically significant figures … whose contributions [to the AAE] have not yet been recognised’, the Committee also attached the names of two other previously ignored members of the expedition to glaciers (AG, ‘Australian Antarctic Glaciers Named’). In 2017 this approach was extended to include the non-human, when 26 islands, rocks and reefs around the site of the AAE headquarters were named in honour of the ‘beloved dogs, which played a critical role in Australia’s heroic era of exploration’ (AG, ‘Mawson’s Huskies’). After nearly a century of focus on the ‘Great Man’ of Australian Antarctic history—Mawson—the criteria for significance were beginning to broaden. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica East Antarctica Huskies University of Tasmania: UTas ePrints Antarctic East Antarctica Commonwealth Bay ENVELOPE(142.500,142.500,-67.000,-67.000) |
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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 Mawson’s Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE), 1911-14, and the decision to attach his name to an Antarctic feature, coming just before the centenary of the AAE’s departure, reflected a gradual historical revisionism around the expedition occurring at this time. Seeking to ‘honour … historically significant figures … whose contributions [to the AAE] have not yet been recognised’, the Committee also attached the names of two other previously ignored members of the expedition to glaciers (AG, ‘Australian Antarctic Glaciers Named’). In 2017 this approach was extended to include the non-human, when 26 islands, rocks and reefs around the site of the AAE headquarters were named in honour of the ‘beloved dogs, which played a critical role in Australia’s heroic era of exploration’ (AG, ‘Mawson’s Huskies’). After nearly a century of focus on the ‘Great Man’ of Australian Antarctic history—Mawson—the criteria for significance were beginning to broaden. |
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Beyond the heroic stereotype: Sidney Jeffryes and the mythologising of Australian Antarctic history |
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Beyond the heroic stereotype: Sidney Jeffryes and the mythologising of Australian Antarctic history |
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https://eprints.utas.edu.au/45396/2/133275%20-%20Beyond%20the%20heroic%20stereotype.pdf Leane, E orcid:0000-0002-7954-6529 , Maddison, B and Norris, K orcid:0000-0003-3661-2749 2019 , 'Beyond the heroic stereotype: Sidney Jeffryes and the mythologising of Australian Antarctic history' , Australian Humanities Review, vol. 64 , pp. 1-23 . |
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