A gallery of photos from Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914) has been put up on Flickr. Cool stuff!

John George Hunter collection of photographs of Antarctica, 1911-1914

I just got a new book and it's glorious!  I shall sing a happy Mawson song.


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You may all be well ahead of me (or you may already own all of them), but I was particularly excited to find a few Antarctic books on the Project Gutenberg site, including Shackleton's "South" and - hurrah - Mawson's "Home of the Blizzard" (yaymawson). Just type antarctica in the Subject box :)

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Oh look, it's a Shackleton community! twirlychelengk, grace_poppy, why didn't you tell me about this? >:(

Hi to everyone else! I've been interested in all things Antarctic ever since I read The Ice Master (ok, so that's Arctic, but still) and saw the Branagh version of Shackleton ( Read more... )