Published Resources Details
Book
- Title
- Fourteen Men : Story of the Australian Antactic Expedition to Heard Island
- Imprint
- F. W. Cheshire, Melbourne, 1949, 273 pp
- Description
First hand narrative of the expedition, based on diaries of the fourteen men on the expedition and at Heard Island from Dec 1947 to Feb 1949.
Heard Island Party:
A. V. (Aub) Gotley, senior meteorologist;
A. T. ("Shorty") Carroll, observer;
K. W. (Keith) York, radio-sonde operator;
A. R. ("Doc") Gilchrist, medical officer;
J. (Johnny) Abbottsmith, engineer;
A. J. (Jim) Lambeth, geologist;
A. N. (Norm) Jones, cook;
R. (Bob) Dovers, surveyor;
G. S. Compton, ("Swampy") Compton, assistant surveyor-geologist;
F. J. (Fred) Jacka, physicist;
J. E. (Jo) Jelbart, physicist;
L. E. ("Lem") Macey, senior readio operator;
A. (Alan) Campbell-Drury, radio operator and photographer;
W. A. (Art) Scholes, radio operator.