Photographs taken by Andrew Watson on the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1914. Watson was based with the Western Base Party, Queen Mary Land. Images include the Aurora leaving Hobart, voyaging to Antarctica, and images of Queen Mary Land and the base there. The prints, from glass slides mounted on card, were collated by Sir Douglas Mawson. The State Library of NSW also holds copies of eight of the fourteen images in their collection 'Home and Away'.

The Aurora was refitted in London before sailing to Hobart where the team members boarded her. The Aurora departed on the 2nd of February 1911 from Hobart for Macquarie Island. After leaving Macquarie Island on the 23rd of December, they reached Antarctica on the 7th of January. Unloading supplies at Cape Denison, the Aurora soon left to take the eight man Western party, including Watson, 1500 miles further along the coast. The expeditioners remained at Antarctica until mid-December 1913. They arrived back in Hobart on February the 26th.

These records are part of the holdings of the Tasmanian Archives