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The "Aurora" at anchor seen from Aerial Cove

Wall of Mertz Glacier Tongue. Ship steaming past

Dipping the flag on departure from West Base

Cape Denison

A small floe berg

Skinning a seal on floe ice

View of the "Aurora"'s bridge

Sailors photographed on deck

Bringing the dogs alongside the "Aurora" for shipment

The trawl swung on board with catch

On deck, S.Y. Aurora, lying off Macquarie Island

Bidding the "Aurora's" party "God-speed" on the Derwent River

Off Caroline Cove

Icing ship in the pack ice

At anchor Auckland Islands

Steaming along the wall of the forty mile berg

A canopy of cloud over Commonwealth Bay

Ice encased rigging

[Aurora] traversing pack ice

At anchor off Commonwealth Bay

Fluke broken off anchor in hurricane at Anchorage, Cape Denison

Traversing pack ice

Oceanography : marine biological programme and other zoological and botanical activities

Ice encased rigging

The big winding drum of the deep-sea trawling gear

Crevassed iceberg [from the deck of Aurora]

One of the sailors in the ship's bow

Group on S.Y. Aurora after leaving Western Base

A glimpse of the "Aurora's" [Aurora] in the voyage south

Aurora at anchor, from near the Aerial Cove, Macquarie Island

The wardroom, S.Y. Aurora

A goodbye cheer on departure from West Base

Wooden stock fitted to anchor in place of that lost at Macquarie Island

S.Y. Aurora in pack ice

Antarctic petrels passing the ship in the Durville Sea

Icing ship in the pack

Ice encrusting the rigging

View on deck of "Aurora"

Icing ship in the pack ice

Departure from Hobart on relief expedition. The mutton supply going forward

Sailors

At anchor under the ice cliffs of Commonwealth Bay

Leaving the wharf, Hobart

Leaving the wharf, Hobart

On deck. Sails set

The anchorage at Commonwealth Bay as seen from Cape Denison

The after deck on final relief voyage

The S.Y. Aurora at anchor, Hasselborough Bay

Traversing loose pack [ice] entering the Durville Sea, Dec. 1913

The relief of the Western Base party, alongside the floe ice at the Western Base

S.Y. Aurora en route to Australia

The "Aurora" sets her face towards Hobart after landing the West Base Party on the Shackleton Shelf

The rocky shore west of Aerial Cove, Macquarie Island

The "Look-out" in the crow's nest, S.Y. Aurora

Ice encased rigging

The S.Y.Aurora approaching the floe ice off the West Base on the occasion of the Relief

Ship at Western Base. Dragging stores to the flying-fox

The "Aurora" arriving off the Western Base for relief

Flaying a seal on the floe ice. Queen Mary Land coast

Friends and well-wishers accompany the "Aurora" down the Derwent River

The "Aurora" anchored to floe-ice off the West Base

Boat going ashore at Macquarie Island

[Portrait of Captain John King Davis ; The s.y. Aurora]

Picturesque shore ice, Cape Denison & the "Aurora" at anchor

Aurora seen from inside the cavern in the Mertz Glacier Tongue

Steaming along the wall of the forty mile berg

Sailing south. Note the harness casks

Ship at West Base relieving party

Hauling gear up the face of the Shackleton Shelf at "The Grottoes"

Icing ship. Feeding the ice melter

Icing ship. Hauling basket of ice on board

Trawl emerging from the water

Ice encrusting the rigging

Icing ship in pack-ice

The "Aurora" ice encased

Traversing thick pack ice near the north-west extremity of the Shackleton Shelf

Icing ship in pack ice off Knox Land

Aurora in front of cavern in Mertz Glacier Tongue

Traversing pack ice

Pack ice met on 1 January 1912

Group on S.Y. Aurora after leaving Western Base

S.Y."Aurora" anchored to the floe ice off Queen Mary Land

In pack ice west of the Balleny Islands

S.Y. Aurora in tropical waters en route to Australia

On the wharf, Hobart, prior to departure of Relief Voyage

Damaged bridge of the Aurora

In loose pack ice

The rigging becomes cased in ice

The S.Y.Aurora off Caroline Cove; Macquarie Island

The wake of the "Aurora" passing through brash ice

A floe-berg with underwater toe

Hauling gear onto the Shackleton Shelf

The bowsprit of the "Aurora"

The damaged bridge of the Aurora

Leaving the wharf behind, Hobart

[Photographs reproduced in `Geographical narrative and cartography' by Douglas Mawson]