An 1885 oil painting of the Aurora under Captain James Fairweather. The Artist unidentified. Photo ANMM

Aurora role in early Antarctic exploration on show at national maritime museum

In a shipyard in Dundee, Scotland, in 1876, the SY Aurora began life seemingly destinated for a career as an Arctic whaler. It ended in mystery four decades later somewhere on the open waters in the South Pacific, only a […]

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