Antarctica- now and then

I came across a link to this article from the "Sydney Morning Herald", December 3, 2008, which relates to an interest I'd talked about in a couple of newspaper reviews I did a few years ago (will re-release them in a separate post)

Mawson food store found in Antarctic
A cache of food left by the 1911-14 Australasian Antarctic Expedition led by explorer Sir Douglas Mawson has been found after almost a century. The cache of flour and pemmican (a food mix favoured by the AAE on sledging runs)in calico bags and a tin was located at Madigan Nunatak, an exposed rocky peak surrounded by ice about 70km east-south-east of Cape Denison. The discovery was made by a small team of explorers led by Greg Mortimer. "We observed a cairn surmounted by a tin consistent in shape and construction with kerosene tins associated with the AAE. The tin contains at least three calico bags held in place by a rock.” The long bamboo pole which marked the spot for the AAE is still there but now lies on the rocks”. Mortimer left the food store at the site near Cape Denison which was the AAE's base for two years and is now being conserved by the Mawson's Huts Foundation.

Read more: http://news.smh.com.au/national/mawson-food-store-found-in-antarctic-20081231-77wp.html

There was also a reference (indeed it was the key to solving the mystery) to the expedition and Mawson's book "Home of the blizzard" in an episode of the ABC's "New Tricks" a couple of weeks ago.