AURORA JOURNAL

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Front Cover: Gentoo penguin and chick, at Macquarie Island. Photo by George Cook. Inside front cover, top: Ray McMahon toasting Captain Sviridov and Dr. Somov on board the Ob. Photo by Bob Eather. Inside front cover, lower: Enjoying the local scenery in the Mawson station dinghy. Photo by Ray McMahon. Inside back cover, top: A Russian artist on the deck of the Ob, painting a Mawson scene. Photo by Bob Eather. Inside back cover, lower: Allan Moore escorting a group of Russian ladies ashore. at mawson. Photo by Bob Eather. Back cover: Iceberg and katabatic wind, near Mertz Glacier Photo by George Cook

List of Contents of latest AURORA Journal (Volume 29 No. 2 December 2009) Presidents Message ANARE Club information page. Annual Phillip Law lecture 2009 - by Denzil Miller. Progressive Midwinter celebrations to the Lilla Dan - by Mark Forecast. Wandering Explorers - by Ralph Fletcher and Dave Carstens. Giant iceberg seen off Macquarie Island - AAD website. Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project Newsletter. Issue No. 4. Book Reviews. ANARE Club South Australian Branch Report. ANARE Club Tasmanian Branch Report. Satelite Technology keeps Antarctica in touch - AAD website. International Award for seabird saving device - AAD website. Island plant in peril - Tasmanian Sunday Sun. Cool Science - AAD website. New South Wales new Midwinter venue. NSW Slide night. Medal auction results Five Million Kroner 'Astrid Lindgren International Childrens Literature Award'. Fourth Country Midwinter dinner. Casey 1970 reunion Coincidental Polar History - by Fred Elliott. Just a big downer - Matt King, Planet Earth. The day the Ob stood still - by Allan Moore, Ray McMahon, Ken Shennan, Bob Eather, Bob Schaeffer and Don Creighton. Antarctic Service Medallions Unclaimed at 17 November, 2009. Peter Trost - Obituary . Sales Page