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Oral History Interview – Noel Cooper

Noel Cooper interviewed by Ian Toohill Compiled and edited by Alan Ryan  Audio interview with Noel Cooper conducted by Ian Toohill 27 Oct 2025 The latest instalment in our “Oral Histories” series.  Ian Toohill interviewed Noel Cooper on 27 October 2025. In December 1955, when Noel was just 23 years of age and a DUKW mechanic […]

John King Davis event, 19 Feb 2026

Thursday 19 February 2026 saw perfect weather to commemorate the 142nd anniversary of Captain John King Davis‘s birth and for the re-dedication ceremony for his new grave monument at the Melbourne General Cemetery. Around 70 invited guests and Club members attended a very meaningful ceremony at the gravesite. President Rebecca Jeffcoat welcomed all present and […]

John King Davis’s Grave unmarked – until now

From ABC News: Captain John King Davis is considered one of Australia’s greatest Antarctic explorers. But even though his name has been immortalised on the icy continent, he ended up being buried in an unmarked grave in Melbourne. What’s next? A ceremony will be held at his final resting place today to unveil a new […]

Vale Bill Cowell

Australia Day Honours 2026

ANARE Club President Rebecca Jeffcoat has sent congratulations on behalf of the Council and Members of the ANARE Club to Dr John Manning PSM, appointed Officer of the Order of Australia (AO).   John Manning was awarded the Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for distinguished service to surveying, mapping and geodesy, to research […]

JK Davis Gravesite Memorial Dedication

50 years of women in Antarctica

Ice breakers – 50 years of women in Antarctica (AAD) Fifty years ago, on 19 January 1976, four women arrived at Casey aboard Thala Dan to become the first women to visit a continental station as part of ANARE.  They were Antarctic Division staff Jutta Hosel, Shelagh Robinson and Elizabeth Chipman, all prominent ANARE Club […]

ANARE Club AGM 2026

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