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William Scholes - First official Australian Settlement on Heard Island, 1947

1917. ANARE members inspect the inhospitable coast of Heard Island, their home for the next 12 month...

1918. An ANARE meteorologist, A V Gotley, Sydney, warily greets an angry bull sea elephant, between...

William Scholes - First official Australian Settlement on Heard Island, 1947

1919. Kenneth Hines and Charles Speedy, cosmic ray physicists, inspect a young sea elephant in the s...

William Scholes - First official Australian Settlement on Heard Island, 1947

1920. Pontoons for landing lighter goods

William Scholes - First official Australian Settlement on Heard Island, 1947

1921. The British government established this emergency hut on Heard Island in 1927

1922. Lieut.-Commander G.M.Dixon, LST 3501 skipper

William Scholes - First official Australian Settlement on Heard Island, 1947

1923. Drums of oil floated ashore at Atlas Cove Point, ready for the shore party's winter stay

William Scholes - First official Australian Settlement on Heard Island, 1947

1924. [Penguins] show great interest when LST 3501 first beached in Atlas Cove

1925. Shore party unpacking the huts chosen for their winter quarters

William Scholes - First official Australian Settlement on Heard Island, 1947

1926. First party ashore at Atlas Cove, Heard Island

1927. The beach-head at Heard Island

William Scholes - First official Australian Settlement on Heard Island, 1947

1928. Peter Blaxland at emergency fuel dump at Kerguelen Island, 300 miles north of Heard Island

William Scholes - First official Australian Settlement on Heard Island, 1947

1929. Members of the scientific party and sailors manhandled the pontoons through treacherous seas b...

1930. J.F. Ivanec, geologist, with a rock-hopper penguin

William Scholes - First official Australian Settlement on Heard Island, 1947

1931. Leopard seal

1932. Gentoo penguins

William Scholes - First official Australian Settlement on Heard Island, 1947

1933. Stuart Campbell, leader of ANARE, and T.Liddell, examine a Royal Penguin at a Macquarie Island...

1934. Elephant seals or sea elephants

William Scholes - First official Australian Settlement on Heard Island, 1947

1935. The Macquarie Island camp site

William Scholes - First official Australian Settlement on Heard Island, 1947

1936. Royal penguins, Macquarie Island

William Scholes - First official Australian Settlement on Heard Island, 1947

1937. Close-up of letters posted from Macquarie Island to the King and Queen, Princess Elizabeth, Wi...

1938. Members of ANARE raising a cheer as Group Captain S.A. Campbell (centre) hoists the Australian...

William Scholes - First official Australian Settlement on Heard Island, 1947

1939. Emergency fuel dump on Kerguelen Island

William Scholes - First official Australian Settlement on Heard Island, 1947

1940. Roger's Head, above section of island's biggest penguin rookery

William Scholes - First official Australian Settlement on Heard Island, 1947

1941. Map of South Pole and surrounds

William Scholes - First official Australian Settlement on Heard Island, 1947