ANARE Club Newsletter
October 2024
Our New ANARE Club Patron
Her Excellency the Honourable Ms Sam Mostyn AC Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia has accepted our invitation to be Patron of the ANARE Club. Her Excellency became Australia’s 28th Governor-General on 1 July 2024, replacing former Governor-General and ANARE Club Patron David Hurley, who had served in the role since 2019.
For more information see the News Post on our website.
Online Events
Our first Branch-hosted Online Event, An Evening with Film-Maker Mike Dillon, was held on Thursday 3 October 2024.
If you missed it, see our Online Event Videos page.
Victorian Branch John Gillies presided over the event, with Mike Dillon introducing clips from his movie The Great White Whale which is currently screening across Australia and internationally. The documentary movie captures the first successful ascent of Australia’s highest peak, Big Ben, on Heard Island in 1965, using original footage from the expedition and interviews of those involved, among them some former ANARE expeditioners. Mike Dillon chaired a panel of special guests who included surviving expedition members Dr Grahame Budd (2024 Phillip Law Medal Recipient), Philip Temple (author of The Sea and The Snow) and John Crick (singer and story teller). The panel enthusiastically answered questions from participants.
Keep checking our Current News page for upcoming Online Events.
New Oral History posted to Vimeo
- Interview with David Carstens has been posted on Vimeo, accessible via our web site. David was interviewed by Ingrid McGaughey and Neville Collins and Kathryn Carstens in 2011.
Captain John King Davis – Grave Memorial Project
The ANARE Club National Council has accepted a quote to install a Memorial to Captain John King Davis at his currently unmarked grave site at the Melbourne General Cemetery. The Club will seek additional sponsors for the project and is pursuing registration as a deductible gift recipient with the Charities Commission.
Wandering Explorers
Are you aware of a colleague who has lost touch with the ANARE Club? A renewal notice might have been accidentally discarded. Not everybody reads emails. Not everybody follows us on Facebook. A password might have gone astray. Our membership renewal technology might have misbehaved or bamboozled. They might not have noticed that Aurora has been missing from their mailbox. We’re here to help, please contact us for assist.
What’s New on the ANARE Club website
- Book Corner. See our holdings (sorry, we do not loan books).
- See ANARE and Antarctic related Book Reviews
- Look out for Book Sales
- ANARE Club Online Event Videos
- Catch up on events you missed
Diary of David Johns
The Antarctic Diary of the late David Johns, former ANARE Club Member, has been salvaged at a tip shop in Hobart. For more information see the ABC News article.
David Johns documented his life in Antarctica while stationed there in 1957. (Supplied: Andrew Johns)
