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Issue Details: First known date: 1913... 1913 The Adelie Blizzard
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Issued by Douglas Mawson and the members of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition during their enforced stay at their main base in Antarctica in 1913.

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    • Adelaide, South Australia,: Friends of the State Library of South Australia ; Friends of Mawson at the South Australian Museum , 2010 .
      Alternative title: The Adelie Blizzard : Mawson's Forgotten Newspaper 1913
      Extent: xxvi, 216 p.p.
      Limited edition info: 999 copies of this edition of the Adelie Blizzard have been published: 199 are hand numbered and bound in half-leather; 450 are hand bound in decorated cloth; 300 are in soft covers. Fifty sets of unbound sheets, identified by roman numerals, have been reserved for presentation and custom bindings.
      Description: illus. (chiefly col.), maps, plans, ports
      Note/s:
      • Facsimile of the Adelie Blizzard 'newspaper' originally issued by Douglas Mawson and the members of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition during their enforced stay at their main base in Antarctica in 1913. It was produced in 5 monthly issues from April to October 1913 (Vol. 1, no. 1 (Apr. 1913)-v. 1, no. 5 (Oct. 1915)). The pages are reproduced at their original size, with handwritten editorial annotations. The originals are held in the Mawson Centre at the South Australian Museum. Includes biographical notes on all the members of the Aurora Expedition who were at the main base during 1912-1913.
      • Preface by Emma McEwin ; introduction by Elizabeth Leane and Mark Pharaoh.
      ISBN: 9781876154608 (deluxe), 9781876154622 (hbk.), 9781876154615 (pbk.)
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Works about this Work

Overflow Rosemary Sorensen , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 9-10 October 2010; (p. 19)
Polar Newspapers as Colonising Fictions : The Frontier Journalism of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition Elizabeth Leane , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: New Literatures Review , October no. 42 2004; (p. 25-43) Elizabeth Leane argues that polar newspapers function as a colonising device, 'imaginatively transforming the tiny, isolated, and provisional expedition community into an established colony' (27). Leane's analysis focuses on the 'Adelie Blizzard,' the unpublished newspaper of Douglas Mawson's Australasian Antartic Expedition of 1911-1914.
Polar Newspapers as Colonising Fictions : The Frontier Journalism of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition Elizabeth Leane , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: New Literatures Review , October no. 42 2004; (p. 25-43) Elizabeth Leane argues that polar newspapers function as a colonising device, 'imaginatively transforming the tiny, isolated, and provisional expedition community into an established colony' (27). Leane's analysis focuses on the 'Adelie Blizzard,' the unpublished newspaper of Douglas Mawson's Australasian Antartic Expedition of 1911-1914.
Overflow Rosemary Sorensen , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 9-10 October 2010; (p. 19)
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PeriodicalNewspaper Details

Range:
Vol. 1, no. 1 (Apr. 1913)-v. 1, no. 5. (Oct. 1913)
Note:
Held in the Mawson Centre at the South Australian Museum
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