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Robert Reginald Gibson - letter received from Australasian Antarctic Expedition meterologist Harold...

Robert Reginald Gibson - letter received from Australasian Antarctic Expedition meterologist Harold...

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Robert Reginald Gibson - letter received from Australasian Antarctic Expedition meterologist Harold Power, 1914

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Full title

Robert Reginald Gibson - letter received from Australasian Antarctic Expedition meterologist Harold Power, 1914

Author / Creator

Date

1914

Call Numbers

MLMSS 6014

Record Identifier

n5lwjbg9

Reference Code

96504
Physical Description

Contents

1 folder - 0.02 Meters

Textual Records

Textual Records - (typescript)

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Fonds

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Scope and Contents

Contents

5 January 1914; Letter from Harold Power, a member of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, which describes his work as Meterologist-in-Charge and base life at Macquarie Island. A typed transcript is included.

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Full title

Robert Reginald Gibson - letter received from Australasian Antarctic Expedition meterologist Harold Power, 1914

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Contextual Information

Source

Presented by Geoffrey R Gibson in 1994

Administrative / Biographical history

Harold Power was a member of the Commonwealth Party that relieved Australasian Antarctic Expedition meterologists at Macquarie Island between December 1913 and December 1914. This letter was written, according to the typed transcript, to a former colleague at the Commonwealth Meterological Bureau in Melbourne. Power left Macquarie Island on the End...

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Call Numbers

MLMSS 6014

Record Identifier

n5lwjbg9

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/n5lwjbg9

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Reference code

96504

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