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Tagged: Antarctica

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AKA Home of the Blizzard: Part 1
Quentin Turnour challenges the myths surrounding the footage created to record and promote Douglas Mawson’s 1911–1914 Australasian Antarctic Expedition.
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AKA Home of the Blizzard: Part 2
In Part 2 of his essay, Quentin Turnour investigates Frank Hurley's association with the promotion of Douglas Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition film.
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Antarctic stories
This exhibition celebrates 100 years of Australian Antarctic Expeditions and the anniversary of Sir Douglas Mawson’s 1911-1914 Australasian Antarctic Expedition.
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Professor Chris Turney
Professor Chris Turney took time out to engage with over 1000 students across Australia, before embarking on the Australian Antarctic Expedition 2013–2014.
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Australian Biography: Phillip Law
Phillip Law (1912–2010) was born in Tallangatta, Victoria. He showed early academic ability and, at the age of 16, became a teacher. He loved skiing and mountaineering and became fascinated by...
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Happy Feet: 'I love gravity'
Mumble (voiced by Elijah Wood) has been expelled from the colony. His dancing upsets the elders, but he finds that Adelie penguins have a much more open attitude. His new best friends – five party-...
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Happy Feet: 'It just ain't penguin'
After a long winter, Memphis (voiced by Hugh Jackman) prays for the return of the sun. As the thaw begins, the Emperor penguin eggs hatch all over the colony – except for Memphis’s egg. Newborn...
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Xavier Mertz (seated) and Belgrave Ninnis (?) on the ‘Aurora’, mid-1911
Xavier Mertz (seated) and Belgrave Ninnis (?) on the ‘Aurora’, mid-1911. ‘The Mawson Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911–1913, Version 2’ 
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Timber wharf at Queen’s Pier, Hobart
Timber wharf at Queen’s Pier, Hobart, 1911. ‘The Mawson Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911–1913, Version 2’
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The ‘Aurora’ being loaded at a gravel wharf, possibly London
The ‘Aurora’ being loaded at a gravel wharf, possibly London, 1911. 'The Mawson Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911–1913, Version 2’.
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