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aseron, Close; front row, Stillwell, Hunter, Correll, Murphy "Wireless" Corner in the workshop. Our link with civilization The "Aurora" anchored to the floe off the western base The establishment of the western base. Hauling stores to the top of the ice-shelf The western base hut in winter. Note the entrance; a vertical hole in the snow in the foreground The western base hut--The Grottoes--in summer An evening camp, Queen Mary Land A man-hauled sledge In the veranda of the western base hut--The "Grottoes"--looking towards the entrance dug vertically down through the snow drift The wind-weathered igloo built for magnetic observations--western base Nunatak--Queen Mary Land: showing remarkable moat on windward side and ramp on lee Midwinter's dinner in Queen Mary Land, 1912. From left to right: Behind--Hoadley, Dovers, Watson, Harrisson, Wild. In Front--Jones, Moyes, Kennedy A bevy of Emperor penguins on the floe A yawning crevasse Wild's party making slow progress in dangerous country Wild, Kennedy, and Harrisson amongst the abysses of the Denman glacier "The whole was the wildest, maddest and yet the grandest thing imaginable" Wild's party working their sledges through the crushed ice at the foot of Denman glacier The Hippo Nunatak Dog-sledging Where the floe-ice meets the Shackleton Shelf The hummocky floe on the southern margin of the Davis Sea View showing the young birds massed together at the Emperor penguins' rookery at Haswell Island Antarctic petrels on the nest A Snow petrel chick on the nest A Silver-Grey petrel on the nest The symmetrically domed outline of Drygalski Island, low on the horizon. The island is 1200 feet high and 9 miles in diameter The main western party on their return to the "Grottoes." from the left: Hoadley, Jones and Dovers Blizzard-harassed penguins, after many days buried in the snow The pancake ice under the cliffs at Land's End A wonderful canopy of ice Sastrugi sculptured by the incessant blizzards The terminal moraine, near the hut, Cape Denison Disappearing in the drift The hut looming through the drift A wall of solid gneiss near winter quarters An erratic on the moraine. Cape Denison Frozen spray built up by the blizzards along the shore A view of the mainland from the Mackellar Islets: ice-capped islets in the foreground: the rock visible on the mainland is Cape Denison A Wilson petrel on
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