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 […]

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 […]

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 […]