View of ice cliffs from a high ridge east of Mawson station, Antarctica, 1955 [picture] / George Lowe
- Bib ID:
- 6001487
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Lowe, George, 1924-
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- 1955
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 16.3 x 21.6 cm.
- Series:
- Australian Information Service collection.
- Notes:
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- Title devised by cataloguer based on label on verso.
- Part of the Australian Information Service collection.
- "The wild and remote beauty of the ice cliffs seen from the high ridge east of Mawson Station. 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. On February 9 this year she pulled into the tiny harbour at Mawson. During the next three weeks she offloaded 450 tons of stores, and the men of the old and new parties completed an extensive building programme which more than doubled the number of buildings on the station."--Printed on label on verso.
- Condition: Buckled.
- "L18559"--From label on verso.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-138112949
- Source of Acquisition:
- Donated by Mrs Julie Carver, 2012.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Australian News and Information Bureau
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- Photograph
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1955
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