Talks, reports and articles by Syd Kirkby

"Airborne Heighting During Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition (ANARE) 1960" by Syd Kirkby, The Australian Surveyor,pp. 439-49, December, 1963 [photocopy]
"Sledge Dogs to Satellites: Some Personal Recollections of the Exploration and Mapping of Australian Antarctica" by Syd Kirkby, presented at a meeting of the Society 6 April 1993, Queensland Geographical Journal, Vol. 8, 1993 [photocopy]
"Australian Antarctic Territory Mac Robertson Land - Kemp Land Tellurometer Traverse" by S.L. Kirkby, Technical Report No. 5, Department of National Development, Division of National Mapping, January-February 1965 [2 copies]

Talks and publications by Syd Kirkby about Antarctica

Queesnland Geographical Journal, 4th Series, Volume 8, 1993, includes article by Syd Kirkby
"Mapping the Prince Charles Mountains Starting from Scratch", Report
Talk for Matthew Flinders College Awards Night, 2001
"Cross Staff or Computer Chip: Vision is the Vital Element" by S.L. Kirkby, Talk for the Survey Congress, 1999
"JP Thompson Oration: Antarctica - A Conducted Tour from Ancient to Modern" by S.L. Kirkby, delivered to The Royal Australian Geographical Society of Queensland, 5 March 2002 [2 copies]
Syd Kirkby response to AG Medal.
"The Great Sandy Desert" by Syd Kirkby, talk for the Royal Geographic Society, 3 September 1996

Material relating to the submission of Sydney Kirkby for a gold medal from the Royal Geographic Society.

Correspondence with: Geoffrey Hattersly-Smith; Rita Gardener, Director, Royal Geographic Society; Sydney Kirkby; Gordon Clark

Copy of the unsuccessful submission in 2004.

Maps of area surveyed by Sydney Kirkby

This folder contains Notes, Lecutures and Articles by Phillip Law about survival and safety, especially in Antarctica. There is also the occasional newspaper clipping not written by or about Phillip Law.

Lectures, Journal articles, correspondence and handwritten notes relating to human survival, particularly in Antarctica. There are also some notes, typed and handwritten, with safety instructions for Antarctica. The notes, lectures and some of the articles are written by Phillip Law and relating to personal experience

Correspondence with: Director's office, Royal Geographic Society; Australia Post; Rita Gardner, Royal Geographic Society; Gordon Clark; Syd Kirkby; Ruth Fincher, Institute of Australian Geographers

"Supporting Statement by Nominator" by P.G. Law
CV of Syd Kirkby
Draft Submission to the Royal Geographic Society for the Award of a Founder's Medal or Patron's Medal
Transcript from Law's 1957 Diary, Sunday 10 February 1957
Nomination Form - blank

Letter from S. Stallman (Antarctic Names and Medal Committee) and 3 photographs of the design for the Antarctic Medal signed by the Queen and the regulations governing the award.

Department of External Affairs, Antarctic Division, drawing number 5/64/03, "Small Pennant and Shoulder Flash".

Department of External Affairs, Antarctic Division, drawing number 5/64/01, "Emblem for Pennant" and 5/64/02, "Pennant".

An Australian News and Information Bureau publication, undated, c. 1958.

Photocopied extracts from P.G. Law's typescript of diary of Wyatt Earp voyage, 8 February 1948 - 20 March 1948.

Copy of report, with annotations, written by B.P. Lambert and P.G. Law, undated.

Copy of report, with annotations, Department of External Affairs, Antarctic Division, Melbourne, August 1961.

Two copies of report by P.G. Law, Department of External Affairs, Antarctic Division.

Transcript of an interview of P.G. Law, with annotations, for article in Melbourne Herald on 17 November 1982 re. Mawson's Huts.

Transcript of an interview of P.G. Law with Richard Ferguson, Mawson Institute for Antarctic Research, University of Adelaide.

Copy of report by P.G. Law, Department of External Affairs, Antarctic Division.

Photocopy of talk or article.

ANARE Personal Communications Booklet, published by Antarctic Division, October 1980.

Includes USSR and USA maps.

Three articles by ANARE on Antarctica published in Wild Life and Wild Life and Outdoors: "Love Dance of the Wanderer", Ronald Knightley, August 1951; "Penguins", Ronald Knightley, January 1952; "Antarctica!", Audrey Armitage, October 1953.

Catalogue of paintings by Graham Thorley made in Antarctica (20 December 1979-31 January 1980). Graham Thorley painted the portrait by P.G. Law in the Antarctic Division.

Programme for Adult Education Association of Victoria Residential Weekend School (Thornton, Victoria), 12-15 June 1964

Map of Antarctica with annotations by Phillip Law.

Original correspondence, news clippings, obituaries, letters to the editor and copies of journal articles. Topics include conservation in Antarctica and women in the Antarctic.

This item has been split into 5 folders labelled Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5 for reboxing on the 30th March 2011. Part 1 is in box 119 and Parts 2-5 are in box 123.

Original correspondence, news clippings, ANARE Field Manual, published reports and copies of journal articles.

This item has been split into 5 folders labelled Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5 for reboxing on the 6th April 2011. Parts 1-2 are in box 123 and Parts3-5 are in box124

ANARE Club newsletters, invitations to events, constitution and other information

This item has been split into 2 folders labelled Part 1 and Part 2 for reboxing on the 6th April 2011. Part 1 is in box 124 and Part 2 is in box 125

This item has been split into 2 folders labelled Part 1 and Part 2 for reboxing on the 6th April 2011.

This item has been split into 4 folders labelled Part 1. Part 2. Part 3 and Part 4 for reboxing on the 6th April 2011.

This item has been split into 6 folders labelled Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 and Part 6 for reboxing on the 6th April 2011.

Arrangements correspondence, itineraries, newsletters from Aurora Expeditions, documents, maps, relating to Aurora Expedition's voyage to the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the Antarctic Peninsula, on which Phillip Law was guest speaker.

Information, itinerary, tickets and a copy of Phillip Law's report of the cruise, relating to Aurora Expedition's voyage to the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the Antarctic Peninsula, on which Phillip Law was guest speaker.

Inwards and outwards correspondence relating to the ANARE Club: John Gillies, Tim Bowden, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Lynette Willshire, Ian McLeod, Ray McMahon, John Manning, Syd Kirkby, Jon Stephenson, Australian National Museum Canberra, Graeme Wheeler, Richard Willing, Wendy Coates, Tony Press - Australian Government Department of the Environment and Water Resources, Denis Rich, John R Rowland, Matthew Dahlberg, Gary Dowse, David Dodd, Graham Cook,

Newspaper clippings: Obituary of Arthur Gwynn - The Age [early 2008], photocopy of an article by Phil Law titled "Not for the faint of heart- The Age January 19 3008, "Time to celebrate our icy poles" by Tyler Stewart on the Royal Society of Victoria's INTREPID program - March 2007, "Australia's great Antarctic explorers - The Age Monday August 13 2007,

Photo montage attached to correspondence from Ray McMahon.

Transcripts: ABC Radio program with Ramona Koval, Tom Griffiths, Robert McGhee and Barry Lopez; interview with Syd Kirkby and Phillip Law for Syd Kirkby Biography

Photocopies: certificate to Phillip Law from the American Geophysical Union and the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics; "Nightmare on Heard Island" by Ian Holmes, as told to Desmond Zwar - The Readers Digest, 51st Year, April 1972

Booklet: member list of the Antarctic Club, January 1951.

Maps: Map A - Coastline of Australian Antarctic Territory sighted by Australian explorers prior to ANARE 1954, Map B - Area seen or photographed from the air by ANARE 1954-63 shown by stipple

Copy of "The Antarctic Treaty"

Booklet titled "Auroral Phenomena" by B.J. O'Brien

Lecture notes: "Geophysics" - 2 copies; "Geophysics and the IGY", 1959; "Lecture 3" - information on geophysics including the earth as a magnet, electrified particles, sunspots, the auroral zone, effects of solar activity, "Lecture 1 - The ANARE", October 1965; "Sea Ice Travel Precautions"; "Survival"; "Milestones in the History of the ANARE (See ANARE - Law and Bechervaise)";

Programme for "Australia and the Antarctic" Residential Weekend School - Adult Education Association of Victoria

ANARE - Programme for Indoctrination Week and Training Courses, 1965

Correspondence relating to the Midwinter celebrations at Mawson and other Antarctic station with: David Dodd; Denis Rich, Station Leader 2007, Casey, Australian Antarctic Territory; Bob Jones; Narelle Campbell; Barry Copley

Invitation to the Mawson Station celebration of Midwinter.
Programme from the Australian Antarctic Division Mid-Winter Memorial Ceremony, Friday 20 June 2008

Davis Midwinter Message 2008 from Dr Phillip Law (Sent to all four ANARE stations, title suitably altered)

Thank you for birthday greetings from Phillip Law to Station Leader Barry Copley and members of the Macquarie Island Party (sent to all four ANARE stations, title suitably altered)

2007 Midwinter Message from Phillip Law - sent to Denis Rich, Station Leader 2007, Casey, Australian Antarctic Territory

Eulogy of Authur Gwynn by Josephine Gwynn and an email to Dick Thompson about the eulogy with it attached.

Correspondence (Birthday wishes from President, Council and Members of the ANARE Club): Brian Harvey, President; Bob Jones and those at Casey Station; Barry Copley; Pete Pederson and those at Davis Station; Narelle Campbell and those at Mawson Station; The Royal Society of Victoria; Denise Allen; Chris Armstrong; Marg Burke; Geoff Butterworth; Trevior R Boyd; David and Kathryn Carstens; Jim Creed; Peggy Dean; David and Jennie Dodd; Alan and Wendy Duke; Malcolm Evans; Virginia Farley; Rex Filson; Lloyd Fletcher; Ted Giddings; John Gillies; Tony Hall; Marg and Jim Haggart; Tom and Julie Harwood; Ivan G. Hawthorn; Bob Jacklyn; Jenna Kelley; Syd Kirkby; Marina, Sylvia and Elizabeth Leckie; Richard Lightfoot; Des Lugg; Rod Mackenzie; Ian McLeod; Ian Marchant; John Milne; Brian J. O'Brien; Peter Stickland; Neville Smethurst; Neville (Nod) Parsons; Richard Unwin; Frits and Elizabeth van Hulssen; John Williams; Dick Willing; Graeme Wheeler; Brian Woinarski; Therese Warren

Notes on the Amery Ice Shelf project 1968

Photocopies: "Accommodation for a temporary station on the Amery Ice Shelf", GDP Smith, Antarctic Division, Department of Supply, Melbourne, Australia;
sections titled "The Amery Ice Shelf overwintering expedition of 1968" from The Antarctic ice sheet, W F Budd, pages 325-328;
section titled "The Amery Ice Shelf" from Sea-ice. Ice shelves and icebergs, I Allison, pages 414-416;
article "Ice core drilling" by Vin Morgan, Research Scientist, Antarctic Division Glaciology Section, [publication details unknown];
"In numbing cold we were alone on the ice" article by Norm Linton-Smith, taken from Australia Outdoors, November, 1974, pages 42-45 and 72-73;
"Polaris K95 Sno-Traveler" article by Max Corry, taken from Aurora, March 1998, pages 13-15;
"Those Amery Ice Shelf Glaciological Marker Snowpoles" by Max Corry, Aurora, June 1996, pages 18-20;
"The Amery Ice Shelf Saga - Part 2: The Amery Ice Shelf Project 1968" by Max Corry, [publication details unknown];
"The Amery Ice Shelf Saga - Part 3: 1969-70" by Max Corry, [publication details unknown]; "A small caravan for Antarctic traverses" by A.M. Brown and F. A. Smith, [publication details unknown];
"Results from the Amery Ice Shelf Project" by W. F. Budd, M. J. Corry, T. H. Jacka, Annals of Glaciology, 3, 1982, pages 36-41;
Chapter 18, "Fieldwork" from Testing Times 1967-1981, pages 322-327

Correspondence with: Tony Press; Tim Bowden

Photographs: "Survivors of Fuchs's Trans-Antarctic Expedition" Ken Blaiklock, Derek Williams, Rainer Goldsmith, Hal Lister, George Lowe, Roy Howard, David Pratt, Richard Brooke

Order form for Crevasse Roulette: Weddell Sector Exploration and The First Trans-Antarctic Crossing 1957-58, John Stephenson, with foreword by Phillip Law

Maps: Vinson Massif and The Sentinel Range, Elsworth Mountains, Antarctica

Lists: Honors and Awards for Sir Douglass Mawson, Frank Hurley, Sir Hubert Wilkins, John Riddock Rymill, Dr Phillip Garth Law

Notes: Famous Australian Antarctic Explorers - Biographies of their Australian Antarctic Exploits - Synopsis; "Australians

Royal Society of Victoria June 2007 Newsletter [with summary of talk by Dr Barrie McKelvy entitled "The Antarctic Ice Sheet - A Controversial Story"]