By LCDR Nick Hattersley, RAN “Once more unto the breach dear friends, once more; Or close up the wall with our English dead. In peace there’s nothing so becomes a ...
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A chip off the Old Rock
S.Y.Aurora – Australia’s first Antarctic mail ship
By Richard Breckon Sir Douglas Mawson’s Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911–14 marked the effective commencement of Australian involvement in Antarctica – the subject of 100-year celebrations recently. The ship carrying ...