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Beyond the heroic stereotype: Sidney Jeffryes and the mythologising of Australian Antarctic history
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Leane, E and Maddison, B and Norris, K, Beyond the heroic stereotype: Sidney Jeffryes and the mythologising of Australian Antarctic history, Australian Humanities Review, 64, (May) pp. 1-23. ISSN 1325-8338 (2019) [Refereed Article]
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Abstract
In 2010 the Australian Antarctic Names and Medals Committee announced that it had named a glacier near Commonwealth Bay in East Antarctica in honour of Sidney Jeffryes. Jeffryes was a member of Douglas Mawson’s Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE), 1911-14, and the decision to attach his name to an Antarctic feature, coming just before the centenary of the AAE’s departure, reflected a gradual historical revisionism around the expedition occurring at this time. Seeking to ‘honour … historically significant figures … whose contributions [to the AAE] have not yet been recognised’, the Committee also attached the names of two other previously ignored members of the expedition to glaciers (AG, ‘Australian Antarctic Glaciers Named’). In 2017 this approach was extended to include the non-human, when 26 islands, rocks and reefs around the site of the AAE headquarters were named in honour of the ‘beloved dogs, which played a critical role in Australia’s heroic era of exploration’ (AG, ‘Mawson’s Huskies’). After nearly a century of focus on the ‘Great Man’ of Australian Antarctic history—Mawson—the criteria for significance were beginning to broaden.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | Australian Antarctic history and historiography, Australian Antarctic expedition, Sidney Jeffryes, Douglas Mawson, exploration history and memorialization |
| Research Division: | History and Archaeology |
| Research Group: | Historical Studies |
| Research Field: | Australian History (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History) |
| Objective Division: | Cultural Understanding |
| Objective Group: | Understanding Past Societies |
| Objective Field: | Understanding Australia's Past |
| UTAS Author: | Leane, E (Professor Elizabeth Leane) |
| UTAS Author: | Maddison, B (Dr Ben Maddison) |
| UTAS Author: | Norris, K (Associate Professor Kimberley Norris) |
| ID Code: | 133275 |
| Year Published: | 2019 |
| Funding Support: | Australian Research Council (FT120100402) |
| Deposited By: | Office of the School of Humanities |
| Deposited On: | 2019-06-20 |
| Last Modified: | 2019-08-01 |
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