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27 objects

1. 

   'Harnessing in dogs and preparing to start - Captain's sledge party' postcard from 'Discovery Antarctic Series'

   Photographic postcards · Antarctica

2. 

   Radiosonde telemetry equipment used with weather balloon to measure atmospheric parameters

   Meteorological equipment · Wilkes Station, Wilkes Land, Antarctica

3. 

   Taxidermied Rockhopper Penguin (Eudyptes chrysocome)

   Birds, Zoological specimens · Antarctica

4. 

   Cape Grim Air Archive bottle 1

   Gas cylinders · Antarctica

5. 

   Preserved husky dog Brendan

   Dogs, Preserved animals · 1985 - 1993 · Mawson station, Mac.Roberston Land, Antarctica

6. 

   Pocket compass in case, used by John Close

   Pocket compasses · Antarctica

7. 

   'Gas trap' 2 designed by David Etheridge

   Scientific equipment · Antarctica

8. 

   Piece of fossilised 'Glossopteris' wood, dating from 251-298 million years ago, Prince Charles Mountains, Antarctica

   Fossils · Antarctica

9. 

   'Seal Bay - part of a pressed up ice ridge' - postcard - 'Discovery Antarctic Series'

   Photographic postcards · Antarctica

10. 

    White silk inner gloves/liners issued to Michael Tierney in Antarctica, 1978

    Gloves · 1978 - · Antarctica

11. 

    'Part of a pressed up ice ridge, Seal Bay' - postcard - 'Discovery Antarctic Series'

    Photographic postcards · Antarctica

12. 

    Continuous plankton recorder, built 1966, Edinburgh

    Hydrological equipment · Antarctica

13. 

    Dip circle, box and case made by Dover-Charlton, associated with Douglas Mawson 1907-1909 Nimrod expedition

    Geophysical survey equipment · Antarctica

14. 

    'Head of Sea Leopard, side view' - postcard - 'Discovery Antarctic Series'

    Photographic postcards · Antarctica

15. 

    'Emperor penguin rookery at commencement of Great Barrier' - postcard - 'Discovery Antarctic Series'

    Photographic postcards · Antarctica

16. 

    'Discovery alongside the Barrier' - postcard - 'Discovery Antarctic Series'

    Photographic postcards · Antarctica

17. 

    Preserved husky dog likely named Jerry

    Dogs, Preserved animals · 1983 - 1985 · Mawson station, Mac.Roberston Land, Antarctica

18. 

    Book titled 'A Winter's Tale', used by Australasian Antarctic Expedition members at Cape Denison, Antarctica, 1912-1914

    Books · Cape Denison, George V Land, Antarctica

19. 

    'Harnessing in dogs and preparing to start - Captain's sledge party' postcard from 'Discovery Antarctic Series'

    Photographic postcards · Antarctica

20. 

    'Home of the Blizzard' (two volume set) by Douglas Mawson inscribed by the author to Tannatt Edgeworth David

    Books · 1915 · London, England

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