D BICKERTON'S PARTIES

CHAPTER XVIII THE SHIP'S STORY. BY CAPTAIN J. K. DAVIS

CHAPTER XIX THE WESTERN BASE--ESTABLISHMENT AND EARLY
ADVENTURES. BY F. WILD

CHAPTER XX THE WESTERN BASE--WINTER AND SPRING

CHAPTER XXI THE WESTERN BASE--BLOCKED ON THE SHELF-ICE.
BY F. WILD

CHAPTER XXII THE WESTERN BASE--LINKING UP WITH KAISER
WILHELM II LAND

CHAPTER XXIII A SECOND WINTER

CHAPTER XXIV NEARING THE END

CHAPTER XXV LIFE ON MACQUARIE ISLAND. BY G. F. AINSWORTH

CHAPTER XXVI A LAND OF STORM AND MIST. BY G. F. AINSWORTH

CHAPTER XXVII THROUGH ANOTHER YEAR. BY G. F. AINSWORTH

CHAPTER XXVIII THE HOMEWARD CRUISE

APPENDIX I THE STAFF

APPENDIX II SCIENTIFIC WORK

APPENDIX III AN HISTORICAL SUMMARY

APPENDIX IV GLOSSARY

APPENDIX V MEDICAL REPORTS:

WESTERN BASE (QUEEN MARY LAND).
BY S. E. JONES, M.B., Ch.M.

MAIN BASE (ADELIE LAND).
BY A. L. McLEAN, M.B., Ch.M., B.A.

APPENDIX VI FINANCE

APPENDIX VII EQUIPMENT

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Sir Douglas Mawson (Photogravure)

In Memoriam cross at Cape Denison (Photogravure)

COLOUR PLATES

Virgin solitudes

A weather-worn snow-berg

A grottoed iceberg

The Mertz Glacier Tongue, at a point 50 miles from the land

The Grey Rock Hills at Cape Denison

Winter quarters, Adelie Land

The Alpine-glow

"Antarctica is a world of colour, brilliant and intensely pure..."

Sledging in Adelie Land

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Islets fringing the mainland: view looking west from Stillwell Island

Rafts of floe-ice

Before sunrise: camped near the Hippo Nunatak

Avalanche rocks

Delay Point

The great "Bergschrund" of the Denman Glacier

Tussock slopes and misty highlands

The shack and its vicinity

A Victoria penguin on the nest

A growth of lichen on red sandstone

Antarctic marine life

Brought up in the deep-sea trawl

PLATES

Professor T. W. Edgeworth David

Professor Orme Masson

Captain John King Davis

The wall of the Antarctic Continent

Finner whales of the South

The 'Aurora' crossing the equator, August 1911

Frank Wild

Ginger and her family on the voyage from London

Queen's Wharf, Hobart, an hour before sailing, December 2, 1911

The last view of Hobart nestling below Mt. Wellington

A big, following sea

McLean walking aft in rough weather

Cruising along the west coast of Macquarie