Macquarie Island 1968: Past Auroral Hill and down…
Macquarie Island 1968: Elephant seal pups
Macquarie Island 1968: Toward the station from the…
Macquarie Island 1968: Snowfall at Bauer Bay
Macquarie Island 1968: The Biologist and the Weka
Macquarie Island 1968: Plateau seastacks
Macquarie Island 1968: Plateau
Macquarie Island 1968: Plateau Lakes
01:100 Strangers - Kayla
02:100 Strangers - John
03:100 Strangers - Biker Andy
Macquarie Island 1968: Taking a break on the plat…
Macquarie Island 1968: Light-mantled Sooty Albatro…
Macquarie Island 1968: Hurd Point
Macquarie Island 1968: King Penguins and Chicks
Macquarie Island 1968: Lusitania Bay hut
Macquarie Island 1968: Royal Penguins
Macquarie Island 1968: An odd couple
Macquarie Island 1968: Southern Giant Petrel
Macquarie Island 1968: Macquarie Shags
Macquarie Island 1968: Rockhopper penguins
Macquarie Island 1968: Rockhoppers and chicks
Macquarie Island 1968: Beach scene
Goodbye Rachel: Macquarie Island 1968
Macquarie Island station from North Head
ANARE Station at Macquarie Island, December 1967
Macquarie Island station during changeover, Decemb…
Around Macquarie Island station, December 1967
The station and elephant seals, Macquarie Island
Landing at Macquarie Island by DUKW, 1967
Going ashore by DUKW
Away again, "Nella Dan" at Macquarie Island
Black-browed Albatross
Sunset and a parting iceberg
Leaving Mawson
Leaving Mawson #2
Looking south over the plateau
Aerial Mawson
Up and away
Mawson gets a radar
New generator
A year's supply
The "Nella Dan" returns.
Around in East Bay
Visiting Adelie and Emperor penguins
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Macquarie Island 1968: WF2 radar dish
Scanned from an old slide taken inside the fibreglass dome, hence the red cast. The old WW2-vintage radar we removed had automatic target tracking: this new one was fully manual. That's progress! But the WF2 could follow the weather balloons for about two hundred kilometers. On a windy day at Macquarie Island, the balloons often did not rise more than ten degrees above the horizon before disappearing in the distance, even though they climbed at about 300 metres/minute ...
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