Ships

List of ships that have been used as observing platforms, sorted by name

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Akademik Federov iMAGEantarctica 2314A1 Location: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Photographer: Jacobson, Glenn Date: April 1998 © AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1998 Voyage count: 1 Period: 2007/08 to 2007/08	Amderma iMAGEantarctica IA15993 Caption: MV Amderma at Mawson. .... Location: Mawson Photographer: Sice, Lee Date: 22-Feb-2009 © Lee Sice 2009 Voyage count: 1 Period: 2008/09 to 2008/09	Aurora Australis iMAGEantarctica 2439B3 Caption: Pumping fuel to Mirny Location: Mirny station Photographer: McCormack, David (Dave) Date: January 1997 © AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1997 Voyage count: 93 Period: 1989/90 to 2008/09	FV Austral Leader iMAGEantarctica 3781A5 Caption: Oceanographical research ship Austral Leader Location: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Photographer: Jacobson, Glenn Date: February 2000 © AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 2000 Voyage count: 1 Period: 1996/97 to 1996/97
HMAS Australia Voyage count: 1 Period: 1949/50 to 1949/50	HMAS Perth Voyage count: 1 Period: 1966/67 to 1966/67	HMAS Queenborough Voyage count: 1 Period: 1965/66 to 1965/66	HMAS Stalwart iMAGEantarctica 1412D3 Caption: Voyage 4 Location: Macquarie Island Photographer: Ertok, Ozcan (Ozzie) Date: December 1985 © AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1985 Voyage count: 1 Period: 1985/86 to 1985/86
HMAS Wyatt Earp iMAGEantarctica 10141A1 Caption: Wyatt Earp at Elizabeth St Pier, north side near where T42 Bar is today. Note Kingfisher aircraft onboard. Photographer was Mr Ford, an amateur ship photographer from New Town. Location: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Photographer: Ford, Mr Date: December 1947 © Jonothan Davis Coll. 1947 Voyage count: 1 Period: 1947/48 to 1947/48	HMNZS Tutira Voyage count: 1 Period: 1948/49 to 1948/49	HMS St Austell Bay Voyage count: 1 Period: 1949/50 to 1949/50	Hakuho Maru iMAGEantarctica 1419B3 Caption: Japanese Oceanographical Research Ship at CSIRO Wharf Location: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Photographer: Reeves, Robert D (Bob) Date: January 1991 © AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1991 Voyage count: 1 Period: 2001/02 to 2001/02
Holmlea Voyage count: 1 Period: 1953/54 to 1953/54	IWC Ship Voyage count: 1 Period: 1984/85 to 1984/85	Kaiyo Maru Voyage count: 1 Period: 1999/2000 to 1999/2000	Kapitan Khlebnikov iMAGEantarctica 3401B5 Caption: Entering Newcombe Bay Location: Newcomb Bay, Budd Coast Photographer: Dixon, Grant Date: January 1999 © AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1999 Voyage count: 4 Period: 1997/98 to 2002/03
Kista Dan iMAGEantarctica 4262A3 Location: Mawson Photographer: Law, Phillip Garth (Phil) Date: 1955 © AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1955 Voyage count: 8 Period: 1953/54 to 1956/57	L'Astrolabe iMAGEantarctica 2415A3 Location: Pack ice/Sea ice Photographer: Ledingham, Roderick B (Rod) Date: ca. 1998 © AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1998 Voyage count: 16 Period: 1995/96 to 2007/08	LST 3501 (later HMAS Labuan) iMAGEantarctica 1420B4 Caption: LST 3501/ Labuan. .... Location: Port Jenne d'Arc, Iles Kerguelen Photographer: Campbell-Drury, Alan Date: 1947-1948 © AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1947 Voyage count: 7 Period: 1947/48 to 1950/51	Lady Franklin iMAGEantarctica 1445A2 Location: Pack ice/Sea ice Photographer: Bain, Gordon Date: 1988-1989 © AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1988 Voyage count: 9 Period: 1982/83 to 1988/89
Lady Lorraine Voyage count: 1 Period: 1987/88 to 1987/88	M/V Arctic Sunrise Voyage count: 2 Period: 1998/99 to 1999/2000	MS Explorer iMAGEantarctica 862C5 Caption: Lindblad Explorer. Location: Macquarie Island Photographer: Mallis, Michael Date: January 1982 © AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1982 Voyage count: 1 Period: 1981/82 to 1981/82	MS Nella Dan iMAGEantarctica 1428D4 Caption: Voyage 2 Location: Pack ice/Sea ice Photographer: Law, Phillip Garth (Phil) Date: January 1965 © AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1965 Voyage count: 85 Period: 1961/62 to 1987/88
MV Cape Pillar iMAGEantarctica 862C3 Caption: Cape Pillar at Macquarie Island. Location: Macquarie Island Photographer: Mallis, Michael Date: February 1982 © AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1982 Voyage count: 2 Period: 1979/80 to 1981/82	MV Icebird iMAGEantarctica 3522A2 Location: Casey vicinity Photographer: Bell, Kevin Date: 1993 © AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1993 Voyage count: 35 Period: 1984/85 to 1992/93	MV Norsel iMAGEantarctica 4250C1 Caption: Norwegian sealing vessel Norsel.700 tons. Used for the NBSAE of 1949-52, The FIDS in 1954-55 and the French for there establishment season of 1955-56 on which this image here was .... Location: Dumont D'Urville, Adelie Land Photographer: Unknown Date: 1955-1956 © AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1955 Voyage count: 1 Period: 1950/51 to 1950/51	MV Polar Queen iMAGEantarctica IA5530 Caption: The second Polar Queen Location: Davis, Vestfold Hills Photographer: Potter, Sandra Date: 2004 © Sandra Potter 2004 Voyage count: 1 Period: 1998/99 to 1998/99
MV S.A. Agulhas Voyage count: 1 Period: 1983/84 to 1983/84	Magga Dan iMAGEantarctica 3965B1 Location: Lewis Island Photographer: Law, Phillip Garth (Phil) Date: 1960 © AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1960 Voyage count: 5 Period: 1958/59 to 1960/61	Nanok S iMAGEantarctica 1437D6 Caption: Voyage 3 Location: Casey Photographer: Manning, Graeme Date: November 1983 © AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1983 Voyage count: 11 Period: 1979/80 to 1983/84	Polar Bird iMAGEantarctica 4556C1 Location: Casey Photographer: Papps, Wayne Date: January 2001 © AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 2001 Voyage count: 11 Period: 1995/96 to 2002/03
Polar Queen iMAGEantarctica 1443B6 Location: Mawson vicinity Photographer: Potter, Sandra Date: 1989-1990 © Potter, Sandra 1989 Voyage count: 3 Period: 1989/90 to 1989/90	R.V. Melville Voyage count: 1 Period: 1996/97 to 1996/97	R.V. Polarstern Voyage count: 2 Period: 2003/04 to 2007/08	RRS Discovery iMAGEantarctica 725D4 Caption: [neg H3602B] Discovery in the doldrums of the South Atlantic en route Cardiff to Cape Town Location: Atlantic Ocean Photographer: Hurley, James Francis (Frank) Date: 1929 © Unknown 1929 Voyage count: 2 Period: 1929/30 to 1930/31
RRS Discovery II iMAGEantarctica 10168A5 Caption: The R.R.S. Discovery II stopped alongside a floe whilst and anchor is taken inboard to prevent it becomming foul of ice. [see also H6132-13] Location: Bay of Whales Photographer: Saunders, A Date: 1935 © AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1935 Voyage count: 1 Period: 1950/51 to 1950/51	RV Africana Voyage count: 1 Period: 1984/85 to 1984/85	River Fitzroy iMAGEantarctica IA16920 Caption: SS River Fitzroy - Official No.159724. 5,001t gross, 2,780t net, 8,555t deadweight. Dimensions: 449ft 2ins x 56ft 8ins x 24ft 7ins. .... Location: Australia Photographer: Unknown Date: 1951 © AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1951 Voyage count: 1 Period: 1950/51 to 1950/51	SY Aurora iMAGEantarctica 10140D6 Caption: This photo was taken on November 18th or 19th 1913, just prior the departure of the ship on the 3rd voyage of the AAE to Commonwealth Bay, to collect Douglas .... Location: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Photographer: Little, W.J. Date: November 1913 © Jonothan Davis Collection. 1913 Voyage count: 5 Period: 1911/12 to 1913/14
Shirase iMAGEantarctica 10154B6 Caption: The Japanese ice breaker Shirase preparing to tow the Aurora Australis out of the pack ice after she had lost hydraulic pressure to variable pitch screw (propeller) Location: Pack ice/Sea ice Photographer: Fletcher, Wendy Date: January 1999 © AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1999 Voyage count: 9 Period: 1999/2000 to 2007/08	Solo iMAGEantarctica 2178D4 Caption: Solo, 62 foot steel yacht which left Sydney on December 15 1977, with 8 persons on board. Organised by the Lewis' Oceanic Research Foundation. They anchored at Solo Harbour, Buckle .... Location: Buckle Island, Balleny Islands Photographer: Arriens, Pieter Date: 9 January 1978 © AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1978 Voyage count: 1 Period: 1977/78 to 1977/78	Soren Larsen Voyage count: 1 Period: 1991/92 to 1991/92	Southern Champion iMAGEantarctica IA9561 Caption: The "Southern Champion" is a modern 2,203 ton fishing vessel owned by Austral Fisheries Pty. Ltd of Fremantle. .... Location: Southern Ocean Photographer: Unknown Date: 2006 © AFMA Observer Programme 2006 Voyage count: 1 Period: 2000/01 to 2000/01
Southern Supporter iMAGEantarctica 10145A4 Location: Heard Island Photographer: Goldsworthy, Simon Date: 2003-2004 © Goldsworthy, Simon 2003 Voyage count: 2 Period: 2003/04 to 2003/04	Tangaroa Voyage count: 4 Period: 1999/2000 to 2007/08	Thala Dan iMAGEantarctica 4629C1 Location: Horseshoe Harbour,Framnes Mountains Photographer: Newton, Geoffrey (Geoff) Date: January 1961 © AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1961 Voyage count: 31 Period: 1957/58 to 1981/82	Tottan iMAGEantarctica 3363D2 Caption: Tottan leaving for Melbourne Location: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Photographer: Unknown Date: 14 April 1952 © AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1952 Voyage count: 4 Period: 1951/52 to 1952/53
Umitaka Maru Voyage count: 4 Period: 2002/03 to 2007/08	Vasiliy Golovnin iMAGEantarctica IA8792 Caption: The "Vasiliy Golovnin" is a Vitus Bering Class Icebreaking ship operated by the Far-Eastern Shipping Company of Vladivostok. She was built in the Ukraine in 1988 and is a sister .... Location: Mawson Photographer: Quinton, Brett Date: 2006 © AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 2006 Voyage count: 2 Period: 2004/05 to 2005/06	Yuzhmorgeologiya Voyage count: 1 Period: 2007/08 to 2007/08