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Charles Harrisson with an albatross on the deck of the Aurora (Frank Stillwell on the left, John Hunter on the right). The frame of the Main Hut at Cape Denison completed, about 24 January 1912. The first boat to go ashore at Commonwealth Bay, 8 January 1912.
The Ship Aurora near icebergs 'Our Antarctic Home', The Second Base, April 10th, 1912. Charles Harrisson's drawing of the hut of the Western Party on the Shackleton Ice Shelf, known as 'The Grottoes'. Frank Hurley's sledging diary, 1912-13
Midwinter Dinner menu from the winter quarters at Commonwealth Bay. Iceberg tower Icebergs at dawn
Entrance passage through the snow drift
The ice
A black-browed albatross, wheeling over the wake of the ship, soars past one of our first icebergs.
 

 

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