Corporate Body

Casey Station (1969 - )

Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions

From
19 February 1969
Antarctica
Functions
Conservation or Environment, Industrial or Scientific Research, Surveying or Mapping and Earth Sciences
Website
http://www.aad.gov.au/default.asp?casid=405
Reference No
CA 2960
Legal Status
Agency of the Commonwealth of Australia

Summary

Work began on the construction of the Casey Station in 1964 and the Station was fully operational in February 1969, when the old Wilkes station, located two kilometres away, was decommissioned.

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Ailie Smith

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"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260