April 25: ANZAC Day

Flags at half mast. Photo : Rich Youd

In the bracing winds we commemorated the 100th anniversary of Anzac Day, with a Dawn Memorial Service followed by brunch and an afternoon BBQ.

Expeditioners Dawn Service. Photo: Rich Youd

Shotgun breakfast. Photo: Rich Youd



On Slushy Duty for Anzac day brunch. Photo: Lionel Whitehorn

Chatting to Ben at the Anzac Day BBQ. Photo: Lionel Whitehorn.

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April 14: Station handover and commemoration of the loss of the supply ship Endeavour

Station handover and unveiling of the ANARE Endeavour plaque.

L-R Me, Ivor Harris 2014 Station Leader, and Rob Wooding General Manager Operations AAD. 

Photo: Justin Chambers

Back in May 2013 I sent off an application for the position of Station Leader.  Finally today I accepted the Station Leader title from the 2014 Macca SL, Ivor Harris.  It  has been a long wait, but I am excited beyond comprehension for what the year ahead holds.

During the handover ceremony we unveiled a plaque on behalf of the ANARE Club (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditioners), to commemorate the loss of the supply ship Endeavour, who had itself come to undertake a resupply at Macca in 1914 and was lost  upon its return to sea claiming all 21 souls aboard.