ANARE Club Newsletter
December 2024
Season’s Greetings from Your Club
The ANARE Club wishes our members, their families and our expedition members down South, a Happy Christmas and a safe and prosperous New Year. We thank you for your participation and contributions this year and we enthusiastically look forward to continued engagement with you in the coming year.
Australia Post Issue – Anniversary of First Ascent of Mawson Peak
The Australia Post Stamp Bulletin for January-February 2025 has announced the release of a Pre-Paid Envelope (PPE), commemorating the 60th anniversary of the first party to ascend the 2745 metre Mawson Peak, Australia’s only highest and active volcano atop of the Big Ben massif on Heard Island on 25 January 1965. Release date is just prior to the Australia Day Holiday Weekend 2025. The Club will be arranging a special release with the signatures of the 3 survivors of the original 5-man party; Grahame Budd, Philip Temple and John Crick. Details will appear in a New Year issue of this Newsletter and in Autumn issue of the Aurora Journal.
Vodka in a Vegemite Jar!
Online Events continued in December, this time hosted by Queensland Branch rep Graham Pryde. Guest Trevor Hamley spoke to us and showed photos from his 3,000 km Soviet Antarctic traverse from Mirny to Dome C in 1983, including a stop at Vostok Airport, featuring the coldest departure lounge on earth!
See Trevor’s Web Site to order your own copy of the book.
If you missed the event, watch our ANARE Club web site for a video recording of Trevor’s talk.
A-Factor at Play with AURORA Journal Mailout
It has come to the Club’s notice that there appears to be some delays with the delivery of our December Issue of our Aurora Journal. The Journals were lodged with Australia Post Moorabbin Business Office on Monday 2 December, who have confirmed that all were dispatched on that day. Given that Christmas mailing has become quite problematical at the best of times, we would like to hear from members who have received the Journal after what they believe is a considerably unacceptable delay having regard to the delivery of mail at this time of the year. If there are some unacceptable delays, the President will take up the matter with Australia Post!
New SMS Notifications
A reminder to scan this QR code with your phone’s camera to add our new SMS Notification Service to your contacts, so that you will know that ANARE Club SMS messages are genuine.
Our number is 0481 076 333.
You can scan this QR code with your phone’s camera to add us to your contacts, so that you will know our message is genuine.
ANARE Club Membership
We all know that statistics can be interpreted whatever way you wish!
Although only half way through our Membership Year, here’s a breakdown of new member recruitment, based on the member’s home state. Congratulations to our Tasmanian Branch for attracting the highest number of new members, pulling above their weight on a per-capita basis.
Wandering Explorers – Does our Newsletter reach you via a work email address? Are you reading this Newsletter on your work computer?
We’ve lost touch with a very long list of members who had supplied Antarctic Division, Bureau of Meteorology, State Government and University email addresses, and later left that job. Employers are reluctant to pass on private contact details to us, so we are stranded.
Please check that your member profile includes a personal email address, as well as a mobile number. Log in to our web site to check your profile.
