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Antarctic exploration

Letter: Enderby Island

Letter Writer · Jun 20, 2022 ·

Having read about the Enderby family in the Journal (NHR March 2023) I feel I must let you know that I have visited Enderby Island. In 2005 I joined a ...

The Australian Antarctic Territory and the Australian Antarctic Research Survey Ship Nuyina

Editorial Staff · Dec 29, 2021 ·

With the arrival of the new Australian Antarctic ship Nuyina at her home port of Hobart it is appropriate to look back to the beginning of our association with the ...

Occasional Paper 121: Captain Morton Henry Moyes, OBE, RAN  1896-1981

A.N. Other · Sep 30, 2021 ·

By Martin Linsley Morton Moyes was a man to admire. ‘He was a true leader – a simple man – a modest man – in very truth a gentle man.’ ...

Book Review: Wyatt Earp – The Little Ship with Many Names

Book reviewer · Sep 20, 2020 ·

Wyatt Earp: The Little Ship with Many Names. By Trish Burgess. Connorcourt Publishing, Cleveland, Queensland. Paperback, 124 pages. rrp $29.95 This book review follows closely in the wake of the ...

Antarctica – the forgotten continent

A.N. Other · Jun 29, 2017 ·

This article has been compiled from research conducted by Hugh Farmer, one of our new members providing invaluable volunteer assistance at the Boathouse. Antarctica occupies about 14,000,000 km2of mainly mysterious ...

Centenary of Shackleton’s Antarctic Rescue by the Chilean Navy

A.N. Other · Sep 27, 2016 ·

By Dr. Carlos Tromben-Corbalán, Centre for Strategic Studies, Chilean Navy Tuesday 30 August 2016 was an auspicious day in the Chilean naval calendar marking the centennial of the rescue of ...

Book Review: Endurance

Book reviewer · Dec 21, 2015 ·

Endurance by Tim Griffiths. Published by Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2015. Softback, 354 pages, rrp $29.99. The cover picture of an ice-bound Endurance is published one hundred years after the loss ...

HMAS Wyatt Earp

Ellis, John · Mar 30, 2012 ·

John Ellis joined the RAN College in 1953; this was followed by the then traditional training in HMAS Swan, Britannia RN College Dartmouth and the RN Engineering College Manadon. He ...

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S.Y.Aurora – Australia’s first Antarctic mail ship

A.N. Other · Mar 4, 2012 ·

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 ...

Leadership: Sir Ernest Shackleton – 1874-1922

Taylor, Megan, Midshipman, RAN · Dec 5, 2008 ·

‘Superhuman effort isn’t worth a damn unless it achieves results.’ Ernest Shackleton, 1916 ‘It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It ...

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Obituary: Captain Morton Henry Moyes OBE RAN

Storey, A.S, DSC, Commander, RAN (Rtd) · Dec 6, 1997 ·

In 1997, the 50th anniversary of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition, it is most appropriate that the Naval Review should include a “salute” to Morton Henry Moyes. He was ...

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Antarctic Lubricants

Thomson, Max · Dec 11, 1991 ·

SCOTCH & ICEBERG Lieutenant John Pain RANR (Ret), an Ansett Airlines career man and personal helicopter pilot to the late Sir Reginald Ansett, gave an enthralling address recently to the ...

HMAS Wyatt Earp and the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition 1947-1948

William F. Cook, MVO, Captain, RAN (Rtd) · Dec 29, 1978 ·

Space will not allow me to dwell significantly on the history of Antarctic exploration, nor the reasons which led to this voyage. The reason, primarily, for the Wyatt Earp mission, ...

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