Shortlisted, Individual Category, Centre for Australian Cultural Studies National Awards 1997 On Boxing Day in 1947, members of the first Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition (ANARE) gathered around a makeshift flag pole for a ceremony of possession at Atlas Cove on Australia s remote Southern Ocean outpost of Heard Island. So began the life of a unique Antarctic community which celebrates its 50th anniversary in 1997. The Silence Calling is the culmination of four years' work by noted broadcaster and historian Tim Bowden, who was commissioned by the Australian Antarctic Division to write the ANARE jubilee history. A fascinating and often moving account, it traces the development of ANARE from that first settlement up to the present day. Thousands of men and women from all over Australia and from many backgrounds have lived, worked and, indeed, played in that dangerous, hostile and overwhelmingly beautiful environment to become part of Australia s Antarctic legend. However, The Silence Calling is not just about personal endeavour and hardship. It is about exploration, discovery and Australia s significant contribution to international
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Tim Bowden is a Sydney broadcaster, radio and television documentary maker, oral historian and author. He hosted the Abc-Tv listener and viewer reaction program Backchat (1986- 1994) In 1969 he was the first executive producer of the Abc radio current affairs program Pm, before becoming a producer with the ground-breaking television current affairs program This Day Tonight in the early 1970s.
For the last 10 years, Tim Bowden has been actively broadcasting, writing and researching Australian activities in Antarctica. He has produced radio documentaries Australians In Antarctica and his six half-hour docu-
taries Breaking The Ice were broadcast on Abc-Tv. He will write and narrate the Anare Jubilee documentary The Silence Calling planned for 1997, drawing on previously unseen archival footage from the Division, filmed oral history interviews he has recorded with key expeditioners, and conte
IntroductionPrefaceBirth of ANAREHeard IslandMacquarie Island: The push southFirst operational yearEarly TimesTesting TimesBreaking the IceEarly ExplorationVirgin TerritorySpreading WingsAntarctica InternationalA Year to RememberANARE LifeFilling in the MapWhy are we there?From Pillar to PostBuilding and MovingField WorkLiving DangerouslyTurbulent TimesTowards 2000Changing CultureScience and the FutureAppendixNotesIndex
