EARLY HISTORICAL PHOTOGRAPHS ASSOCIATED WITH

MAWSON BASE, ANTARCTICA,

(GENERALLY COURTESY AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL ANTARCTIC RESEACH EXPEDITION)

Kista Dan in Horseshoe Harbour, 1954 (by Louis Macey from Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW)

When photograph taken the site that became Mawson Station was still just bare rock; to the left of the ship the Auster aircraft can just be identified.

Aerial view of Horseshoe Harbour, Mawson Station site,

February 1954 (by Phillip Law)

Dover's Island emergency camp, Mawson 1954 (by Phillip Law)

Establishment of Mawson station on 13 February 1954 (by Richard Hugh Thompson)

Mawson station site 1954 (by Phillip Law)

Mawson station establishment 1954 (by Phillip Law)

Kista Dan in Horseshoe Harbour Mawson 1955 (by Phillip Law)

Mawson station site 1955 (by Phillip Law)

Mawson station site 1955 (by George Lowe)

Weasel being recovered from slotting near Mawson 1955 (by Fred Elliott)

Open No.3 Weasel and barge caravan with Mt Henderson in the background, 1954 (by Louis Macey from Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW) 

Dog team starting out from Mawson on western traverse 1954 (by Bruce Stinear)

Robert Dovers taking an astrofix near Stinear Nunataks 1954 (by Robert Summers)

Weasel loaded with fuel drums 1954 (by Robert Dovers)

Weasel towing sled loaded with fuel drums 1954 (by Robert Summers)

Robert Dovers inspecting the Weasel track wheels 1954 (by Robert Summers)

de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver and field party at King Edward Ice Shelf 1956 (by John Seaton)

Scullin Monolith 1983 (by Robert Reeves)