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Land parties edit

Main Base edit

Name Photograph Position Notes
Bob Bage   Astronomer, assistant magnetician, recorder of tides
Frank Bickerton   In charge of air-tractor sledge[1]
John Close   Assistant collector
Percy Correll   Mechanic, assistant physicist
Walter Hannam   Wireless operator, mechanic
Alfred Hodgeman   Cartographer, sketch artist
John Hunter   Biologist
Frank Hurley   Official photographer
Sidney Jeffryes   Wireless operator
Charles Laseron   Taxidermist, biological collector
Cecil Madigan   Meteorologist
Douglas Mawson   Commander of the expedition
Archibald McLean   Chief medical officer, bacteriologist
Xavier Mertz   In charge of Greenland Dogs
Herbert Murphy   In charge of expedition stores
B. E. S. Ninnis   In charge of Greenland Dogs
Frank Stillwell   Geologist
Eric Webb   Chief magnetician
Leslie Whetter   Surgeon[1] A graduate in medicine from the University of Otago,[2] Whetter was originally a member of the Third Base party.[3] He was part of two sledging parties: the Western Survey party, led by Madigan, and the Western party, led by Bickerton.[2][4] Mawson thought Whetter lazy, and described him as "not fit for a polar expedition".[3] He returned to Australia on Aurora's first 1913 voyage.

Western Base edit

Name Photograph Position Notes
Charles Dovers   Cartographer
Charles Harrisson   Biologist
Charles Hoadley   Geologist
Sydney Jones   Medical officer
Alexander Kennedy   Magnetician
Morton Moyes   Meteorologist
Andrew Watson   Geologist
Frank Wild   Leader, sledge-master

Macquarie Island edit

Name Photograph Position Notes
George Ainsworth Leader, meteorologist
Leslie Blake Cartographer and geologist
Harold Hamilton Biologist
Charles Sandell Wireless operator and mechanic
Arthur Sawyer Wireless operator

Aboard the SY Aurora edit

Officers edit

Name Photograph Position Notes
John Blair Chief Officer, final Antarctic voyage
John King Davis Master of SY Aurora and second-in-command of the expedition
Frank Fletcher Chief officer, second Antarctic voyage and during the spring and winter sub-Antarctic voyages
F. J. Gillies Chief engineer
Percival Gray Second and navigating officer
Clarence Petersen de la Motte Third officer
Norman Toutcher Chief officer, first Antarctic voyage

Crew edit

Others edit

References edit

Notes
Footnotes
  1. ^ a b Mawson (1996), p. 8
  2. ^ a b "The people: Leslie H. Whetter". Mawson's Huts Foundation. Australian Antarctic Division. Retrieved 2011-04-10.
  3. ^ a b Riffenburgh (2009), p. 84
  4. ^ Riffenburgh (2009), p. 95
Bibliography
  • Ayres, Philip J. (1999), Mawson: a life, Carlton South, Victoria: Miegunyah Press at Melbourne University Press, ISBN 9780522848113
  • Mawson, Douglas (1996) [1915], The home of the blizzard: the story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914, Kent Town, South Australia: Wakefield Press, ISBN 9781862543775
  • Riffenburgh, Beau (2009) [2008], Racing with death: Douglas Mawson—Antarctic Explorer, London, New York and Berlin: Bloomsbury Publishing, ISBN 9780747596714

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