The Acetylene Light, Mawson's Hut

This contrivance is the acetylene apparatus, which generated acetylene to provide lighting for the huts. Although there was electricity (Mawson's expedition in 1911-13 was the first to use radio to communicate from Antarctica to the world, via a relay station on Macquarie Island) it would not have been possible to operate full time generators for power and lighting.

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tiabunna ^club

Thanks, ~erin~. The original expeditioners were true pioneers. Still, there would have been none of that snow inside in their time, that is the result of the hut now being empty and unheated. In the high wind blizzard conditions, even a pinhole allows mountains of snow to accumulate inside.

11 years ago.

tiabunna ^club

Indeed, John. This was "capital B" Basic! What would have been toughest, I suspect, would have been the total lack of personal space, with so many in such a small area.

11 years ago.

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