Just ten days remain to see the awe-inspiring Traversing Antarctica: The Australian Experience exhibition at the WA Maritime Museum in Fremantle before it closes on Sunday, February 24.
The exhibition showcases original equipment and diaries used by expeditioners during the infamous first Australasian Antarctic Expedition in 1911-1914, and follows Australia’s relationship with the icy-continent to modern day.
Exhibition highlights include a live webcam link to Davis Station, the WYSSA code used by expeditioners to contact home (named after the most used phrase, “All my (our) love, darling”), and Shep the Husky – one of the last dogs to step foot on Antarctica before the 1991 Protocol on Environmental Protection (Madrid Protocol) banned all introduced species except humans from Antarctica and the last huskies left the frozen continent in 1993.
Entry to the exhibition is free with Museum entry. For more information, visit museum.wa.gov.au/whats-on/traversing-antarctica
Media contact:
Niki Comparti
Western Australian Museum
6552 7805, Niki.Comparti@museum.wa.gov.au
