Series 16 - Antarctic and ANARE Miscellany


Date Range1948 - 1989
Quantity23.1 cm, 18 items
ProvenancePhillip Garth Law
Description

Miscellaneous items collected and received by P.G. Law relating to Antarctica, including some correspondence, photographs, designs for ANARE logo pennant and sleeve patch specifications, publications on Antarctica (not by P.G. Law), copies of extracts from P.G. Law's diaries and reports, maps, list of ANARE publications (1961), and interviews.


Inventory Listing

16- Submission to RGS for a Royal Gold Medal for Syd Kirkby
Part 1 of 2

Talks, reports and articles by Syd Kirkby

"Airborne Heighting During Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition (ANARE) 1960" by Syd Kirkby, The Australian Surveyor,pp. 439-49, December, 1963 [photocopy]
"Sledge Dogs to Satellites: Some Personal Recollections of the Exploration and Mapping of Australian Antarctica" by Syd Kirkby, presented at a meeting of the Society 6 April 1993, Queensland Geographical Journal, Vol. 8, 1993 [photocopy]
"Australian Antarctic Territory Mac Robertson Land - Kemp Land Tellurometer Traverse" by S.L. Kirkby, Technical Report No. 5, Department of National Development, Division of National Mapping, January-February 1965 [2 copies]

Creator Phillip Garth Law
Date range 1960 - 2005    Quantity 1.5 cm, 1 Folder
Formats Reports, Talks and/or Speeches, Journals and Photocopied Documents
Inventory Identifier 16/039 Box Number 128 Series 16
16- Kirkby's Explorations

Talks and publications by Syd Kirkby about Antarctica

Queesnland Geographical Journal, 4th Series, Volume 8, 1993, includes article by Syd Kirkby
"Mapping the Prince Charles Mountains Starting from Scratch", Report
Talk for Matthew Flinders College Awards Night, 2001
"Cross Staff or Computer Chip: Vision is the Vital Element" by S.L. Kirkby, Talk for the Survey Congress, 1999
"JP Thompson Oration: Antarctica - A Conducted Tour from Ancient to Modern" by S.L. Kirkby, delivered to The Royal Australian Geographical Society of Queensland, 5 March 2002 [2 copies]
Syd Kirkby response to AG Medal.
"The Great Sandy Desert" by Syd Kirkby, talk for the Royal Geographic Society, 3 September 1996

Creator Phillip Garth Law
Date range 1993 - 2001    Quantity 2.5 cm, 1 Folder
Formats General Publications and Talks and/or Speeches
Inventory Identifier 16/038 Box Number 128 Series 16
16- Kirkby RGS 2006

Material relating to the submission of Sydney Kirkby for a gold medal from the Royal Geographic Society.

Correspondence with: Geoffrey Hattersly-Smith; Rita Gardener, Director, Royal Geographic Society; Sydney Kirkby; Gordon Clark

Copy of the unsuccessful submission in 2004.

Maps of area surveyed by Sydney Kirkby

Creator Phillip Garth Law
Date range 2006    Quantity 1 cm, 1 Folder
Formats General Correspondence, Maps and Proposals and/or Submissions
Inventory Identifier 16/037 Box Number 128 Series 16
16- Dr Law - Personal Survival

This folder contains Notes, Lecutures and Articles by Phillip Law about survival and safety, especially in Antarctica. There is also the occasional newspaper clipping not written by or about Phillip Law.

Creator Phillip Garth Law
Date range 1958 - 1967    Quantity 2 cm, 1 Folder
Formats News Clippings, Loose Notes, Talks and/or Speeches, Journals, Photocopied Documents and Legal Documents
Inventory Identifier 16/036 Box Number 128 Series 16
16- Survival etc.

Lectures, Journal articles, correspondence and handwritten notes relating to human survival, particularly in Antarctica. There are also some notes, typed and handwritten, with safety instructions for Antarctica. The notes, lectures and some of the articles are written by Phillip Law and relating to personal experience

Creator Phillip Garth Law
Date range February 1960 - August 1987
Formats General Correspondence, News Clippings, Loose Notes, Journals and Photocopied Documents
Inventory Identifier 16/035 Box Number 128 Series 16
16- Submission to RGS for a Royal Gold Medal for Syd Kirkby
Part 2 of 2

Correspondence with: Director's office, Royal Geographic Society; Australia Post; Rita Gardner, Royal Geographic Society; Gordon Clark; Syd Kirkby; Ruth Fincher, Institute of Australian Geographers

"Supporting Statement by Nominator" by P.G. Law
CV of Syd Kirkby
Draft Submission to the Royal Geographic Society for the Award of a Founder's Medal or Patron's Medal
Transcript from Law's 1957 Diary, Sunday 10 February 1957
Nomination Form - blank

Creator Phillip Garth Law
Date range 2003 - 2005    Quantity 2 cm, 1 Folder
Formats General Correspondence, CV, Forms and Diaries
Inventory Identifier 16/040 Box Number 128 Series 16
16-1 Australian Antarctic Medal Regulations

Letter from S. Stallman (Antarctic Names and Medal Committee) and 3 photographs of the design for the Antarctic Medal signed by the Queen and the regulations governing the award.

Creator Phillip Garth Law
Date range 29 July 1987    Quantity 0.5 cm, 4 items
Formats General Correspondence and Loose Photographic Prints
Inventory Identifier 16/001 Box Number 3i Series 16
16-2 ANARE Logo Pennant and Sleeve Patch Specification

Department of External Affairs, Antarctic Division, drawing number 5/64/03, "Small Pennant and Shoulder Flash".

Creator Phillip Garth Law
Date range 5 December 1963    Quantity 6 cm, 1 tube
Formats Drawings
Inventory Identifier 16/002 Box Number 3i Series 16
16-3 ANARE Logo Pennant Specification

Department of External Affairs, Antarctic Division, drawing number 5/64/01, "Emblem for Pennant" and 5/64/02, "Pennant".

Creator Phillip Garth Law
Date range 5 March 1964    Quantity 8 cm, 1 tube
Formats Drawings
Inventory Identifier 16/003 Box Number 3ii Series 16
16-4 Australians in the Antarctic

An Australian News and Information Bureau publication, undated, c. 1958.

Creator Phillip Garth Law
Date range c. 1958    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Formats General Publications
Inventory Identifier 16/004 Box Number 63 Series 16
16-5 Wyatt Earp Voyage

Photocopied extracts from P.G. Law's typescript of diary of Wyatt Earp voyage, 8 February 1948 - 20 March 1948.

Creator Phillip Garth Law
Date range 1948    Quantity 0.4 cm, 1 file
Formats Photocopied Documents
Inventory Identifier 16/005 Box Number 63 Series 16
16-6 A New Map of the Coastline of Oates Land and Eastern King George V Land

Copy of report, with annotations, written by B.P. Lambert and P.G. Law, undated.

Creator Phillip Garth Law
Date range c. 1959    Quantity 0.3 cm, 1 file
Formats Reports and Maps
Inventory Identifier 16/006 Box Number 63 Series 16
16-7 ANARE List of Publications Resulting from the Work of Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions

Copy of report, with annotations, Department of External Affairs, Antarctic Division, Melbourne, August 1961.

Creator Phillip Garth Law
Date range 1961    Quantity 0.4 cm, 1 file
Formats Reports
Inventory Identifier 16/007 Box Number 63 Series 16
16-8 Report of the 1962 voyage of "Thala Dan" to Wilkes and Oates Land

Two copies of report by P.G. Law, Department of External Affairs, Antarctic Division.

Creator Phillip Garth Law
Date range c. 1962    Quantity 0.7 cm, 1 file
Formats Reports
Inventory Identifier 16/008 Box Number 63 Series 16
16-9 Draft of Taped Interview of P.G. Law by Peter Game of Melbourne Herald

Transcript of an interview of P.G. Law, with annotations, for article in Melbourne Herald on 17 November 1982 re. Mawson's Huts.

Creator Phillip Garth Law
Date range November 1982    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Formats Drafts and Talks and/or Speeches
Inventory Identifier 16/009 Box Number 63 Series 16
16-10 The Hurley-Mawson View of Antarctica

Transcript of an interview of P.G. Law with Richard Ferguson, Mawson Institute for Antarctic Research, University of Adelaide.

Creator Phillip Garth Law
Date range 5 September 1989    Quantity 0.3 cm, 1 file
Formats Talks and/or Speeches and Photocopied Documents
Inventory Identifier 16/010 Box Number 63 Series 16
16-11 Report on Visit to USSR

Copy of report by P.G. Law, Department of External Affairs, Antarctic Division.

Creator Phillip Garth Law
Date range 1964    Quantity 0.3 cm, 1 file
Formats Reports
Inventory Identifier 16/011 Box Number 63 Series 16
16-12 "Watch for the Aurora" by Dr F. Jacka

Photocopy of talk or article.

Creator Phillip Garth Law
Date range c. 1957    Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 file
Formats Photocopied Documents
Inventory Identifier 16/012 Box Number 63 Series 16
16-13 ANARE Song Book
Creator Phillip Garth Law
Date range c. 1972    Quantity 0.5 cm, 1 file
Formats Ephemera
Inventory Identifier 16/013 Box Number 63 Series 16
16-14 Communicating with Antarctica

ANARE Personal Communications Booklet, published by Antarctic Division, October 1980.

Creator Phillip Garth Law
Date range October 1980    Quantity 0.6 cm, 1 file
Formats General Publications
Inventory Identifier 16/014 Box Number 63 Series 16
16-15 Sundry Maps (Antarctic) and Track Charts of Voyages

Includes USSR and USA maps.

Creator Phillip Garth Law
Date range c. 1950 - c. 1965    Quantity 4 cm, 1 file
Formats Maps
Inventory Identifier 16/015 Box Number 3i Series 16
16-16 Wild Life Publications on Antarctica

Three articles by ANARE on Antarctica published in Wild Life and Wild Life and Outdoors: "Love Dance of the Wanderer", Ronald Knightley, August 1951; "Penguins", Ronald Knightley, January 1952; "Antarctica!", Audrey Armitage, October 1953.

Creator Phillip Garth Law
Date range August 1951 - October 1953    Quantity 0.3 cm, 1 file
Formats General Publications
Inventory Identifier 16/016 Box Number 63 Series 16
16-17 Graham Thorley: Artist in Antarcica

Catalogue of paintings by Graham Thorley made in Antarctica (20 December 1979-31 January 1980). Graham Thorley painted the portrait by P.G. Law in the Antarctic Division.

Creator Phillip Garth Law
Date range c. 1980    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Formats General Publications
Inventory Identifier 16/017 Box Number 63 Series 16
16-18 Australia and the Antarctic

Programme for Adult Education Association of Victoria Residential Weekend School (Thornton, Victoria), 12-15 June 1964

Creator Phillip Garth Law
Date range June 1964    Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 file
Formats Ephemera
Inventory Identifier 16/018 Box Number 63 Series 16
16-19 Voyages of Exploration Led By Phillip Law 1954-1966

Map of Antarctica with annotations by Phillip Law.

Creator Phillip Garth Law
Date range 1954 - 1966    Quantity 1 map
Formats Maps
Inventory Identifier 16/019 Box Number 144 Series 16
16-20 General Antarctic Papers

Original correspondence, news clippings, obituaries, letters to the editor and copies of journal articles. Topics include conservation in Antarctica and women in the Antarctic.

This item has been split into 5 folders labelled Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5 for reboxing on the 30th March 2011. Part 1 is in box 119 and Parts 2-5 are in box 123.

Creator Phillip Garth Law
Date range 1982 - 2005    Quantity 9 cm, 1 box
Formats General Correspondence, News Clippings and Journals
Inventory Identifier 16/020 Box Number 119 Series 16
16-21 ANARE

Original correspondence, news clippings, ANARE Field Manual, published reports and copies of journal articles.

This item has been split into 5 folders labelled Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5 for reboxing on the 6th April 2011. Parts 1-2 are in box 123 and Parts3-5 are in box124

Creator Phillip Garth Law
Date range 1952 - 2006    Quantity 10 cm, 1 box
Formats Journals and Published Reports
Inventory Identifier 16/021 Box Number 123 Series 16
16-22 ANARE Club Correspondence
Creator Phillip Garth Law
Date range 1975 - 2005    Quantity 2.5 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence
Inventory Identifier 16/022 Box Number 124 Series 16
16-23 ANARE Club Documents

ANARE Club newsletters, invitations to events, constitution and other information

This item has been split into 2 folders labelled Part 1 and Part 2 for reboxing on the 6th April 2011. Part 1 is in box 124 and Part 2 is in box 125

Creator Phillip Garth Law
Date range 1982 - 2005    Quantity 4 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence and Newsletters
Inventory Identifier 16/023 Box Number 124 Series 16
16-24 Antarctic Wives Association

This item has been split into 2 folders labelled Part 1 and Part 2 for reboxing on the 6th April 2011.

Creator Phillip Garth Law
Date range 1969 - 2003    Quantity 3 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence and Newsletters
Inventory Identifier 16/024 Box Number 125 Series 16
16-25 ANARE Correspondence

This item has been split into 4 folders labelled Part 1. Part 2. Part 3 and Part 4 for reboxing on the 6th April 2011.

Creator Phillip Garth Law
Date range 1964 - 2005    Quantity 10 cm, 1 box
Formats General Correspondence and Photocopied Documents
Inventory Identifier 16/025 Box Number 125 Series 16
16-26 ANARE Documents

This item has been split into 6 folders labelled Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 and Part 6 for reboxing on the 6th April 2011.

Creator Phillip Garth Law
Date range c. 1950 - c. 2004    Quantity 10 cm, 1 box
Formats General Correspondence, Drafts, Reports, News Clippings, Newsletters and Loose Notes
Inventory Identifier 16/026 Box Number 126 Series 16
16-27 M.V. Professor Molchanov Antarctic Cruise, Summer 2000-2001

Arrangements correspondence, itineraries, newsletters from Aurora Expeditions, documents, maps, relating to Aurora Expedition's voyage to the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the Antarctic Peninsula, on which Phillip Law was guest speaker.

Creator Phillip Garth Law
Date range 2000 - 2001    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Maps and Newsletters
Inventory Identifier 16/027 Box Number 127 Series 16
16-28 PGL 2000-2001 Antarctic Cruise "Professor Molchanov"

Information, itinerary, tickets and a copy of Phillip Law's report of the cruise, relating to Aurora Expedition's voyage to the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the Antarctic Peninsula, on which Phillip Law was guest speaker.

Creator Phillip Garth Law
Date range 2000 - 2001    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier 16/028 Box Number 127 Series 16
16-29 ANARE - Correspondence June 2007-March 2008, news clippings, List of Members, maps, notes and spirit copies of documents and reports

Inwards and outwards correspondence relating to the ANARE Club: John Gillies, Tim Bowden, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Lynette Willshire, Ian McLeod, Ray McMahon, John Manning, Syd Kirkby, Jon Stephenson, Australian National Museum Canberra, Graeme Wheeler, Richard Willing, Wendy Coates, Tony Press - Australian Government Department of the Environment and Water Resources, Denis Rich, John R Rowland, Matthew Dahlberg, Gary Dowse, David Dodd, Graham Cook,

Newspaper clippings: Obituary of Arthur Gwynn - The Age [early 2008], photocopy of an article by Phil Law titled "Not for the faint of heart- The Age January 19 3008, "Time to celebrate our icy poles" by Tyler Stewart on the Royal Society of Victoria's INTREPID program - March 2007, "Australia's great Antarctic explorers - The Age Monday August 13 2007,

Photo montage attached to correspondence from Ray McMahon.

Transcripts: ABC Radio program with Ramona Koval, Tom Griffiths, Robert McGhee and Barry Lopez; interview with Syd Kirkby and Phillip Law for Syd Kirkby Biography

Photocopies: certificate to Phillip Law from the American Geophysical Union and the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics; "Nightmare on Heard Island" by Ian Holmes, as told to Desmond Zwar - The Readers Digest, 51st Year, April 1972

Booklet: member list of the Antarctic Club, January 1951.

Maps: Map A - Coastline of Australian Antarctic Territory sighted by Australian explorers prior to ANARE 1954, Map B - Area seen or photographed from the air by ANARE 1954-63 shown by stipple

Copy of "The Antarctic Treaty"

Booklet titled "Auroral Phenomena" by B.J. O'Brien

Lecture notes: "Geophysics" - 2 copies; "Geophysics and the IGY", 1959; "Lecture 3" - information on geophysics including the earth as a magnet, electrified particles, sunspots, the auroral zone, effects of solar activity, "Lecture 1 - The ANARE", October 1965; "Sea Ice Travel Precautions"; "Survival"; "Milestones in the History of the ANARE (See ANARE - Law and Bechervaise)";

Programme for "Australia and the Antarctic" Residential Weekend School - Adult Education Association of Victoria

ANARE - Programme for Indoctrination Week and Training Courses, 1965

Creator Phillip Garth Law
Date range June 1964 - March 2008    Quantity 2.5 cm, 1 Folder
Formats General Correspondence, News Clippings, Loose Photographic Prints, Photocopied Documents and Lists
Inventory Identifier 16/029 Box Number 127 Series 16
16-30 ANARE - 2008 Midwinter

Correspondence relating to the Midwinter celebrations at Mawson and other Antarctic station with: David Dodd; Denis Rich, Station Leader 2007, Casey, Australian Antarctic Territory; Bob Jones; Narelle Campbell; Barry Copley

Invitation to the Mawson Station celebration of Midwinter.
Programme from the Australian Antarctic Division Mid-Winter Memorial Ceremony, Friday 20 June 2008

Davis Midwinter Message 2008 from Dr Phillip Law (Sent to all four ANARE stations, title suitably altered)

Thank you for birthday greetings from Phillip Law to Station Leader Barry Copley and members of the Macquarie Island Party (sent to all four ANARE stations, title suitably altered)

2007 Midwinter Message from Phillip Law - sent to Denis Rich, Station Leader 2007, Casey, Australian Antarctic Territory

Creator Phillip Garth Law
Date range June 2007 - June 2008    Quantity 0.5 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence
Inventory Identifier 16/030 Box Number 127 Series 16
16-31 ANARE - Arthur Gwynn Eulogy

Eulogy of Authur Gwynn by Josephine Gwynn and an email to Dick Thompson about the eulogy with it attached.

Creator Phillip Garth Law
Date range March 2008    Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence and Talks and/or Speeches
Inventory Identifier 16/031 Box Number 127 Series 16
16-32 ANARE Club - PGL 96th Birthday

Correspondence (Birthday wishes from President, Council and Members of the ANARE Club): Brian Harvey, President; Bob Jones and those at Casey Station; Barry Copley; Pete Pederson and those at Davis Station; Narelle Campbell and those at Mawson Station; The Royal Society of Victoria; Denise Allen; Chris Armstrong; Marg Burke; Geoff Butterworth; Trevior R Boyd; David and Kathryn Carstens; Jim Creed; Peggy Dean; David and Jennie Dodd; Alan and Wendy Duke; Malcolm Evans; Virginia Farley; Rex Filson; Lloyd Fletcher; Ted Giddings; John Gillies; Tony Hall; Marg and Jim Haggart; Tom and Julie Harwood; Ivan G. Hawthorn; Bob Jacklyn; Jenna Kelley; Syd Kirkby; Marina, Sylvia and Elizabeth Leckie; Richard Lightfoot; Des Lugg; Rod Mackenzie; Ian McLeod; Ian Marchant; John Milne; Brian J. O'Brien; Peter Stickland; Neville Smethurst; Neville (Nod) Parsons; Richard Unwin; Frits and Elizabeth van Hulssen; John Williams; Dick Willing; Graeme Wheeler; Brian Woinarski; Therese Warren

Creator Phillip Garth Law
Date range April 2008    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence
Inventory Identifier 16/032 Box Number 127 Series 16
16-33 Amery Ice Shelf Project

Notes on the Amery Ice Shelf project 1968

Photocopies: "Accommodation for a temporary station on the Amery Ice Shelf", GDP Smith, Antarctic Division, Department of Supply, Melbourne, Australia;
sections titled "The Amery Ice Shelf overwintering expedition of 1968" from The Antarctic ice sheet, W F Budd, pages 325-328;
section titled "The Amery Ice Shelf" from Sea-ice. Ice shelves and icebergs, I Allison, pages 414-416;
article "Ice core drilling" by Vin Morgan, Research Scientist, Antarctic Division Glaciology Section, [publication details unknown];
"In numbing cold we were alone on the ice" article by Norm Linton-Smith, taken from Australia Outdoors, November, 1974, pages 42-45 and 72-73;
"Polaris K95 Sno-Traveler" article by Max Corry, taken from Aurora, March 1998, pages 13-15;
"Those Amery Ice Shelf Glaciological Marker Snowpoles" by Max Corry, Aurora, June 1996, pages 18-20;
"The Amery Ice Shelf Saga - Part 2: The Amery Ice Shelf Project 1968" by Max Corry, [publication details unknown];
"The Amery Ice Shelf Saga - Part 3: 1969-70" by Max Corry, [publication details unknown]; "A small caravan for Antarctic traverses" by A.M. Brown and F. A. Smith, [publication details unknown];
"Results from the Amery Ice Shelf Project" by W. F. Budd, M. J. Corry, T. H. Jacka, Annals of Glaciology, 3, 1982, pages 36-41;
Chapter 18, "Fieldwork" from Testing Times 1967-1981, pages 322-327

Creator Phillip Garth Law
Date range 1968 - 1982    Quantity 1.5 cm, 1 file
Formats General Publications, Loose Notes, Journals, Published Reports and Photocopied Documents
Inventory Identifier 16/033 Box Number 127 Series 16
16-34 Antarctic - General

Correspondence with: Tony Press; Tim Bowden

Photographs: "Survivors of Fuchs's Trans-Antarctic Expedition" Ken Blaiklock, Derek Williams, Rainer Goldsmith, Hal Lister, George Lowe, Roy Howard, David Pratt, Richard Brooke

Order form for Crevasse Roulette: Weddell Sector Exploration and The First Trans-Antarctic Crossing 1957-58, John Stephenson, with foreword by Phillip Law

Maps: Vinson Massif and The Sentinel Range, Elsworth Mountains, Antarctica

Lists: Honors and Awards for Sir Douglass Mawson, Frank Hurley, Sir Hubert Wilkins, John Riddock Rymill, Dr Phillip Garth Law

Notes: Famous Australian Antarctic Explorers - Biographies of their Australian Antarctic Exploits - Synopsis; "Australians

Royal Society of Victoria June 2007 Newsletter [with summary of talk by Dr Barrie McKelvy entitled "The Antarctic Ice Sheet - A Controversial Story"]

Creator Phillip Garth Law
Date range May 2008 - June 2008    Quantity 0.5 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Maps, Newsletters, Loose Notes, Loose Photographic Prints, Lists and Forms
Inventory Identifier 16/034 Box Number 127 Series 16

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