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Suggest changes to: Claiming of Adelie Land for the British, Monday, 1200, 5 January 1931
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<p>Box of original photographs including those taken of Mawson's Second B.A.N.Z.A.R.E. Voyage from Hobart, 22nd November 1930 to Hobart, 19th March 1931. They are held by Special Collections in the University of Newcastle Library, Australia.</p> <p>The photos in this collection are in the public domain and are free to use. As a courtesy, please acknowledge the image source, "Image created by William E Howard, held by the <a href="http://livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/">University of Newcastle Library's Special Collections</a>".</p> <p>If you would like to comment on a photograph, please contact <a href="mailto:archives@newcastle.edu.au">Special Collections</a> or <a href="http://livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/67977">sign up as a member</a> and add a Recollection, using <a href="http://livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/67980">these instructions</a>.</p>
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Further information: The Winning of Australian Antarctica; Mawson's B.A.N.Z.A.R.E. voyages, 1929-31, based on the Mawson papers. By A. Grenfell Price. Published for the Mawson Institute for Antarctic Research, University of Adelaide. [Sydney] Angus and Robertson [1962] See pages 115-116 "On the morning of the 5th, the wind having calmed down, a landing was made.... At noon on the 5th the flag was hoisted on a rocky point overlooking the bay. In a casket at the foot of the pole a proclamation was deposited, claiming formal possession of King George V Land, defined as that section of the Antarctic coast-line extending between the 142nd and 160th degree of east longitude. (and between lat. 66 degrees S. and the South Pole.)" Monday 5th January (1931). Off Cape Denison "At noon the Proclamation was read by Sir Douglas Mawson. Captain MacKenzie hoisted the flag and the land extending west to the 142 Meridian east was proclaimed for Great Britain under the name of King George V Land."
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