tiabunna's photos with the keyword: radome

From an old slide. Mawson was one of the last major Australian observing stations to receive a wind-finding radar. This is a WF2 with a range of about 200km, being installed in its protective radome in February 1967.

Our new WF2 balloon tracking radar in its red radome shows up well in this photo, taken about February in 1968. The "Nella Dan" was stranded on the rocks adjacent to the radar in December 1987 and scuttled offshore on Christmas Eve of that year. You can find some excellent photos of the stranding by entering "Nella Dan Macquarie Island" in the Flickr search box.