The Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1914
Professor Tom Griffiths, Antarctic historian, joins the Australian Antarctic Division’s centennial voyage to Mawson’s Huts at Commonwealth Bay, departing Hobart 5 January 2012.
Peter Stanley wins Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian History
Peter Stanley is the joint winner of the 2010-2011 Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History. Peter is an Associate of Centre for Environmental History working with fellow Centre researchers on the Victorian Bushfires project.
Environmental History PhD Workshop
Are you writing a PhD in some aspect of environmental history? The Centre for Environmental History at the Australian National University will be running a workshop for PhD students from around the country who are researching aspects of environmental history in Australia, New Zealand or elsewhere...
Antarctic history and policy
This ARC-funded Discovery Project (2010-12) into the environmental and political history of Australia’s involvement in the Antarctic Treaty System involves the ANU, the University of Tasmania and the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD). The project aims to document and assess Australia’s significant record of achievement in the ATS during
Scott reaches the South Pole … and turns...
17 January 2012 On this day a hundred years ago, Robert Falcon Scott, Edward Wilson, ‘Birdie’ Bowers, Edgar Evans and Captain Lawrence Oates arrived second at the South Pole. Roald Amundsen’s Norwegian...
Suddenly it seemed possible that we woul...
16 January 2012 The cloud lifted and the white cliffs of East Antarctic asparkled in the sunlight. The fleck of rock that is Cape Denison beckoned us ashore for a landing just as it did Mawson and his men. ...
The true commemorative spirit!
15 January 2012 At 2 am the wind dropped and after waiting a short time … called all hands and started work, sounding the steam whistle as a sign to the shore of our intentions. By three o’clock however,...
Talking with the locals
14 January 2012 I began this blog with a reflection on the history of waiting in Antarctica and the strange contours of time down here. As you voyage south, it is as if your ship is pushing out the boundaries...
The roar of the wind and the beat of you...
13 January 2012 We are in the home of the blizzard praying for wind. The Aurora Australis is ‘parked’ (as our Voyage Leader puts it) in the edge of the fast ice about 20 kilometres north of Commonwealth...About CEH
The Centre for Environmental History at the Australian National University embraces research and teaching in environmental history, history of science and public history from anywhere in the world, but focuses particularly on Australian experience and perspectives.
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