when: 26 September 2025 - 05 October 2026 | venue: Australian National Maritime Museum | cost: Free | address: 2 Murray Street, Sydney NSW 2000 | website: https://www.sea.museum/en/whats-on/exhibitions/frozen-witness-auroras-polar-voyages | tickets: https://www.sea.museum/en/whats-on/exhibitions/frozen-witness-auroras-polar-voyages
published: 22 Sep 2025, 5 min read
Voyage back in time to the early stories of Australians in Antarctica through the journeys of SY Aurora, an Arctic whaler/sealer turned exploring vessel.
This small exhibition features Aurora's Arctic years under Captain James Fairweather and in Antarctica, the expeditions of Sir Douglas Mawson and Sir Ernest Shackleton through the remarkable story of a wooden vessel pitched into the icy unknown.
This small exhibition includes the surviving lifebuoy and a selection of evocative objects and images from the National Maritime Collection, and other public collections, including Museums Victoria, Royal Australian Navy Heritage Collections, Canterbury Museum and the Maritime History Archive at the Memorial University of Newfoundland as well as early vision from the National Film and Sound Archive.
This exhibition is supported by the greatgrandchildren of Aurora's Captain Fairweather in memory of their father James S Fairweather, 1926-2015 through the Australian National Maritime Museum Foundation.
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Voyage back in time to the early stories of Australians in Antarctica through the journeys of SY Aurora, an Arctic whaler/sealer turned exploring vessel.
This small exhibition features Aurora's Arctic years under Captain James Fairweather and in Antarctica, the expeditions of Sir Douglas Mawson and Sir Ernest Shackleton through the remarkable story of a wooden vessel pitched into the icy unknown.
This small exhibition includes the surviving lifebuoy and a selection of evocative objects and images from the National Maritime Collection, and other public collections, including Museums Victoria, Royal Australian Navy Heritage Collections, Canterbury Museum and the Maritime History Archive at the Memorial University of Newfoundland as well as early vision from the National Film and Sound Archive.
This exhibition is supported by the greatgrandchildren of Aurora's Captain Fairweather in memory of their father James S Fairweather, 1926-2015 through the Australian National Maritime Museum Foundation.
Go see Frozen Witness: Aurora's Polar Voyages 2025.
Frozen Witness: Aurora's Polar Voyages 2025 is on 26 September 2025 - 05 October 2026. See start and end times below. Conveniently located in Sydney. Call 0292983777 for details. Visit their website at https://www.sea.museum/en/whats-on/exhibitions/frozen-witness-auroras-polar-voyages.
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