Cape Denison Historic Site, Commonwealth Bay Antarctica [cartographic material] / produced in November 1990 by the Australian Surveying & Land Information Group Department of Administrative Services, for Australian Antarctic Division, Department of the Arts, Sport, the Environment, Tourism and Territories
- Bib ID:
- 717929
- Format:
- Map
- Author:
- Australian Surveying and Land Information Group
- Scale:
- Scale 1:3,300, 1 cm. = 33 metres (E 142⁰39'00"--E142⁰41'30''/S 66⁰59'00"--S 67⁰01'00")
- Description:
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- Canberra : The Group, 1990
- 1 map : col. ; on sheet 83 x 62 cm.
- Series:
- Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) map collection ; no. 3/4/37.
- Biography/History:
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The Australasian Antarctic Expedition was an Australian scientific team that explored part of Antarctica between 1911 and 1914. It was led by the Australian geologist Douglas Mawson, who was knighted for his achievements in leading the expedition. In 1910 he began to plan an expedition to chart the 2000-mile long coastline of Antarctica to the south of Australia. The team selected for the expedition came primarily from universities in Australia and New Zealand. They would sail on the Newfoundland sealing vessel Aurora, a steam-powered sailing vessel. They departed for Macquarie Island on December 2, 1911 where they set up a research station of six men. Departing Macquarie Island on December 23, the Aurora began exploring the coastal areas, during which they discovered and named King George V Land and Queen Mary Land. The expedition built their main base, or winter quarters, at Cape Denison in Commonwealth Bay, where eighteen men spent the winter of 1912 and seven spent the winter of 1913. (Their huts still stand - two intact and two as ruins: Mawson's Huts, now managed as an historic site by the Australian Antarctic Division.) They also built quarters on Macquarie Island and a western base on the Shackleton Ice Shelf, but these no longer survive. The teams at all three bases conducted routine scientific and meteorological observations, which were recorded in great detail in the voluminous reports of the expedition (not published until 1922-1942). They also overcame months of failures with equipment and masts by eventually establishing the first Antarctic wireless radio connection (linked to Hobart, via Macquarie Island). Commonwealth Bay is listed as the windiest place on Earth with winds regularly exceeding 150 miles per hour.
- Notes:
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- Topographic map of Cape Denison located at the head of Commonwealth Bay, "the windiest place on earth". Includes notes on the expedition Australasian Antarctic Expedition lead by Mawson from 1911-1914, the Antarctic Treaty, the Cape Denison site, guidelines for visitors, safety tips, BANZARE, 1929-1931, and ANARE, 1947-1990. Included are also photographs, ground plan and transverse section of Main Hut and location map. Relief shown by contours with contour interval at 5 metres.
- "CU90/077"
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Subject:
- Time Coverage:
- 1990
- Other authors/contributors:
- Australia. Antarctic Division
- Related Records:
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- Until 2040 [Created/Published Date + 50 Years]
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- Material type:
- Artistic
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1990
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