Preparation

Selections
In their own words

Ours proved to be a very happy selection.  The majority of the men chosen as members of the land parties were young graduates of the Commonwealth and New Zealand Universities, and almost all were representative of Australasian. – Douglas Mawson, The Home of the Blizzard

Frank Hurley speaks in 1962 of how he applied to join the AAE as photographer. Excerpt from the film Antarctic Pioneer