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THE Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911-14 under the leadership of Sir Douglas Mawson seems an episode of the remote past, for so many better equipped expeditions have intervened. The latest of the scientific reports of this expedition is the fifth of the series and is in three parts (Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-14. Scientific Reports. Series B, Vol. 5: Meteorology. Part 1: Records of the Queen Mary Land Station; Part 2: Meteorological Log of the S.Y. “Aurora”; Part 3: Sledge Journey Weather Records; Appendix, Macquarie Island Weather Notes for 1909-1910-1911. Pp. x + 282 + 4 plates. Sydney: Government Printer, 1940. 405.). It is concerned with meteorology. Part 1 of this volume deals with the records of the Queen Mary Land station—the ‘Grottoes’—in latitude 66° S., longitude 95° E.; Part 2 covers the meteorological log of the S.Y. Aurora, and Part 3 the weather records of the sledge journeys; an appendix includes the daily weather records made at Macquarie Island by Otto Bauer's sealing party from August 1909 to July 25, 1910, and January 1 to December 12, 1911.
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Meteorology of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition. Nature 146, 228 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146228a0
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