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- Artefact Type - Category 1: Structures - Other Structure - An artefact originally created primarily to modify the environment or landscape or to define a space for some reason besides climate control. This classification includes dams, mines, and bridges. Structures, such as sports complexes that are primarily intended to provide controlled access and convenient seating should be placed in this classification. Some other structures may have climate controlled spaces, such as the space under dome in a stadium or the generating room of a hydroelectric dam, but these spaces serve a secondary role to the function of the structures.
Count of artefacts returned is 7, sorted by Artefact Catalogue No.
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| Artefact Catalogue No |
Common Name | Description | Collection |
|---|---|---|---|
| CDPFP | Proclamation Flag Pole and Plaque | On the 5th January, 1931 Mawson returned to Cape Denison as the leader of BANZARE. The prime motivation of the tripartite supported expedition was to assert the sovereignty of the British Commonwealth over the portions of the Antarctic that British subjects had discovered. His landing at Cape Denison was therefore the annexation stie for what has now become known as Eastern Australian Antarctic Territory. To provide some formalisation of his claim he affixed a small carved timber plaque and proclamation to the mast of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition anemometer station located on Anemometer Hill. (William Blunt., Mawsons' Huts Antarctica A Conservation Proposal. Vol One. 1991. p 111) | Cape Denison Artefacts |
| DSB 44 | Mikkelsen Site | A cairn established by Captain Klarius Mikkelsen's Norwegian whaling party on the largest island in the Tryne Group in 1935 to mark the naming of the Vestfold Hills and the first landing by a woman in Antarctica. Contains a depot of provisions and supports a 4-5 m spar with three square-sectioned braces, forming a flagpole. | Davis Station Artefacts |
| DSB 45 | Wilkins Site - Walkabout Rocks | 6 km northeast of the Vestfold Hills, the only one of the three sites at which Sir Hubert Wilkins reasserted Australia's territorial claim in 1939 to be discovered. The site is marked by a 1977 cairn and bamboo pole. The document, recording Wilkins' visit of 11 January 1939 and the volume of the Walkabout magazine in which it was originally rolled, were set in 1989 in perspex, and placed in a stainless steel box. These, and the original enamel beakers containing the red Australian ensign, are inside a plywood container, 900 mm west of the boulder under which it was discovered. The boulder is marked by a 1957 cairn. | Davis Station Artefacts |
| DSB 46 | Wilkins Site - Western Vestfold Hills | One of the three sites at which Sir Hubert Wilkins reasserted Australia's territorial claim in 1939 - one of two yet to be rediscovered. On 9 January 1939, Wilkins deposited a record of his his visit in the western Vestfold Hills, in a round eroded hole 3 inches in diameter in the northern side of a boulder beside a distinctive rock formation, towards the top of the second highest point of land near a fjord: the exact location has not since been determined. | Davis Station Artefacts |
| DSB 47 | Wilkins Site - Rauer group | One of the three sites at which Sir Hubert Wilkins reasserted Australia's territorial claim in 1939 - one of two yet to be rediscovered. On 8 January 1939, Wilkins deposited a record of his his visit in an aluminium container under a group of small stones 25 feet north of a cairn, and near the topmost nest of a penguin rookery: the exact location has not since been determined. | Davis Station Artefacts |
| DSB 48 | Law Cairn | After establishing Mawson station, the 1954 ANARE expedtition led by Phillip Law headed 650km eastwards aboard the Kist Dan to the Vestfold Hills, anchoring offshore on 1 March. During the next day, Law and three companions landed on the mainland. Here they constructed a 90 cm tall cairn, 1.3m x 1.3m, which was surmounted by a broom handle. Contains an empty glass jar which originally housed the document (now removed) recording the visit. | Davis Station Artefacts |
| Maw 43 | Cemetery | Three graves on a hill on West Arm overlooking the station. Rock-covered coffins, brass commemoration plaques and white wooden crosses. Two of the graves have two plaques one from family, one from ANARE. Mark the deaths of expeditioners Robert White (1963), Kenneth Wilson (1972) and Geoffrey Cameron (1974). | Mawson Station Artefacts |
