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Antarctic exploration
Book Review: Wyatt Earp – The Little Ship with Many Names
Wyatt Earp: The Little Ship with Many Names. By Trish Burgess. Connorcourt Publishing, Cleveland, Queensland. Paperback, 124 pages. rrp $29.95 This book review follows closely in the wake of the ...
Antarctica – the forgotten continent
This article has been compiled from research conducted by Hugh Farmer, one of our new members providing invaluable volunteer assistance at the Boathouse. Antarctica occupies about 14,000,000 km2of mainly mysterious ...
Centenary of Shackleton’s Antarctic Rescue by the Chilean Navy
By Dr. Carlos Tromben-Corbalán, Centre for Strategic Studies, Chilean Navy Tuesday 30 August 2016 was an auspicious day in the Chilean naval calendar marking the centennial of the rescue of ...
Book Review: Endurance
Endurance by Tim Griffiths. Published by Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2015. Softback, 354 pages, rrp $29.99. The cover picture of an ice-bound Endurance is published one hundred years after the loss ...
HMAS Wyatt Earp
S.Y.Aurora – Australia’s first Antarctic mail ship
By Richard Breckon Sir Douglas Mawson’s Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911–14 marked the effective commencement of Australian involvement in Antarctica – the subject of 100-year celebrations recently. The ship carrying ...
Leadership: Sir Ernest Shackleton – 1874-1922
Obituary: Captain Morton Henry Moyes OBE RAN
Antarctic Lubricants
SCOTCH & ICEBERG Lieutenant John Pain RANR (Ret), an Ansett Airlines career man and personal helicopter pilot to the late Sir Reginald Ansett, gave an enthralling address recently to the ...