From an old slide. Mawson was established in 1954 and is the oldest permanently occupied station in Antarctica, seen here in 1966. Almost all these buildings have since been demolished, replaced by vast new structures. This view is looking back through the main part of the station. This also shows the VW "Beetle" with the registration (not visible here) "Antarctica 3".

Some blatant advertising. For the 50th anniversary of our expedition, I wrote a book which is available online as either a hard cover or inexpensive .pdf download. It covers the material I've shown here plus a lot more narrative and images (also some previously untold stories). If you visit the link I've given, you can view a preview by clicking on the book cover, then click on the diagonal arrow at top right to enlarge, then just click the image to flip the pages.