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Sailors on deck

The first boat to go ashore at Commonwealth Bay

At the wharf, Hobart, half an hour before departure

Loose floe bergs

Trawl just hauled up & loaded with animal life

A crust of ice begins to form over the deck structures

Landing the West Base Party - View on the summit of the Shackleton Shelf

Ice-encased winch

Aurora passes through pack ice

Ice encased rigging

Everything on deck became cased in ice

Sea strewn with brash ice

Icing ship in pack ice

Iceing ship in the pack

Lightering stores off from the "Aurora", Commonwealth Bay

S.Y. Aurora alongside the floe ice at the Western Base

At anchor in Auckland Islands

A crust of ice begins to form over the deck structures

The S.Y. Aurora steams away from the West Base

Melting ice for fresh water supply. Amongst pack ice

A deck view on the "Aurora" on voyage south

In the bows of the Aurora in pack ice off Knox Land

Ice-studded waters

Traversing a tongue of loose pack ice

Ice berg (?)

Icing ship in the pack ice

Group of the members of Main Base Party relieved in 1913

Sailors operating the Kelvin sounding machine at the stern of the Aurora

Iceing ship

Sailors on deck

The bridge of the "Aurora" damaged by heavy weather

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

S.Y. Aurora at wharf

Ship at floe - Western Base

The "Aurora" tied to floeat the Shackleton Shelf

The stern post & propellor of S.Y. Aurora in dry dock

On the morning of departure from Hobart

Amongst the rocky reefs near Aerial Cove, Macquarie Island

On deck, S.Y. Aurora

Lightering off gear at Commonwealth Bay

The dogs on arrival on board, England

Aurora at anchor Commonwealth Bay

The S.Y. Aurora in pack ice

Lightering off gear at Commonwealth Bay

Sledging gear from Aurora to flying-fox, West Base

The anchorage at Commonwealth Bay as seen from Cape Denison

Crevassed berg met 30 miles from Cape Denison

A case of biscuits being received at the top of the cliff

Icebergs

Drawing away from Mt. Wellington & Hobart

Heading into pack ice

Snap shot on deck, frozen mutton

Deck view at anchor, Cape Denison

Loading Shell Benzine on board the "Aurora"

Sledging stores from the ship to the foot of the flying-fox, Shackleton Shelf

The dogs on board S.Y. Aurora en route England to Australia

The "Aurora" at wharf, Lyttleton Harbour, New Zealand

Ginger and her pups born en route London to Hobart

The ice encased rigging of the "S.Y.Aurora"

Shovelling ice from the "Aurora" deck during a lull in a blizzard

View looking east from the "Aurora" at the anchorage; Commonwealth Bay

West Base Party (Group) after relief

Feeding the ice tank

On deck off the West Coast, Macquarie Island. Kelvin sounding machine in foreground

Unfurling sail aloft, S.Y. Aurora

Sailors on deck of "Aurora" at Macquarie Island

Tilted berg showing several lines of former water-line levels

Shelf ice formation

One of the sailors

The sailors' barber

Resting after the labours of establishing the Macquarie Island base

Aurora steaming along face of Mertz Glacier Tongue at [the] cavern

Passing an iceberg

Loose pack ice, cruise 1913-14

Group of Emperor penguins present during the landing of the West Base Party

Snapshot on Aurora's deck

The lower end of the flying-fox at West Base

View on ship's deck

Photo on Aurora en route south

Aurora alongside the ice off Western Base

In the Monagasque trawl just after hauled on board with catch

On the point of departure

Hoisting dogs up ship's side, Quarantine Station

West Base Party (Group) after relief

Ice encrusting a winch

Sailors on deck

Hauling stores up to the top of the Shackleton Shelf

Amongst the pack ice

Preparing whale boat for lowering away

From the ship traversing pack ice

View of the roof of the "Aurora" galley & laboratories. Taken between Macquarie Island & Antarctica

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

The wall of the forty-mile berg

Lightering stores ashore at Commonwealth Bay

The ship steaming through the pack ice

Iceberg off the Mertz Glacier Tongue

Aurora in pack ice

The Aurora's bulwarks cased in ice

Traversing pack ice

Coaling the S.Y. Aurora at Kiama [sic, i.e. Port Kembla]