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The Acetylene Light, Mawson's Hut
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This contrivance is the acetylene apparatus, which generated acetylene to provide lighting for the huts. Although there was electricity (Mawson's expedition in 1911-13 was the first to use radio to communicate from Antarctica to the world, via a relay station on Macquarie Island) it would not have been possible to operate full time generators for power and lighting.
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