Papers of Elizabeth Chipman [manuscript]. .1956-1998.

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Papers of Elizabeth Chipman [manuscript]. .1956-1998.

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The collection comprises papers relating to Chipman's career with the Australian Antarctic Division and the research for her books Australians in the frozen south (1978) and Women on ice (1986). They include photographs, transparencies, diaries, edited typescripts of her two novels, correspondence, reviews, questionnaires, newspaper cuttings and card index.

2.24 m. (17 boxes) + +2 folio boxes.

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Australian national Antarctic research expeditions

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Chipman, Elizabeth

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Chipman worked for the Antarctic Division of the Department of Science in Melbourne between 1954 and 1977, where she had a varied career as a typist, information officer and scientific administrator. She visited Macquarie Island with the Australian Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) during summers of 1966-1967, 1971-1972, and 1975-1976. She was the first woman member of the ANARE Club and one of the first Australian women to set foot on the Antarctic mainland. She is the author of two books:...