A000711 revised AU-VU:EOAS Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation

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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Corporate Body created 2000-07-19 human Gavan McCarthy [P004098] updated 2026-04-29 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/A000711b.htm CA 1873; ABN 564 286 306 76. corporateBody Antarctic Division Commonwealth of Australia AACR2 Australian Antarctic Division 1 January 1949 Start Place Kingston, Tasmania, Australia Location Kingston, Tasmania Industrial or Scientific Research Conservation or Environment The Antarctic Division took over from the Antarctic Section of the Administrative Division of the Department of External Affairs with the appointment of Phillip Law as Officer-in-Charge. The decisions to create the Division were taken in 1948. The Division appears to have assumed the name "Australian Antarctic Division" sometime in the 1990s. From their Web site 19 July 2000: 'The Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) is the lead agency for Australia's Antarctic Program. The AAD is responsible for the co-ordination and management of the ASAC (Antarctic Science Advisory Committee) programs; for conducting research in high-priority areas of Antarctic science; for co-ordinating and managing Australia's shipping and field program in Antarctica; and for administering the Australian Antarctic Territory and the subantarctic Territory of Heard and Macquarie Islands.' CRC for Antarctica and the Southern Ocean (1997 - 2003) CRC for the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Environment (1991 - 1997) Parsons, Neville Ronsley (Nod) (1926 - 2017)

Physicist 1949 - 1964

 Quilty, Patrick (1939 - 2018)

Chief Scientist 1993 - 1999

 Gormly, Peter James (1937 - 2012)

Medical Officer 1978 - 2007; awarded Australian Antarctic Medal 1991

 Rofe, Bryan (1918 - 1971)

Director, 1970 - 1971

 Renfree, Marilyn Bernice (1947 - )

Chair, Animal Ethics Committee 1997 - 2003

 Law, Phillip Garth (1912 - 2010)

Director, 1949 - 1966

 Tasmanian Herbarium (1976 - )

The Division's lichen, bryophyte and subantarctic vascular plant collections have been transferred to the Herbarium

 Cole, Keith David (1929 - 2010) 1957 1963

Theoretical Physicist with the Antarctic Division of the CSIRO (1957 - 1963)

 Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE), Antarctic Division (1947 - ) Department of the Environment [II], Central Office, Commonwealth of Australia (1997 - 1998) Department of the Environment and Heritage, Commonwealth of Australia (1998 - ) 21 October 1998

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 'Antarctic Division', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Antarctic Division Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Resource Section: Primary description of agency CA 1873; Antarctic Division. Registration of entity: 23 September 1987 Primary description of agency CA 1873; Antarctic Division. Registration of entity: 23 September 1987 National Archives of Australia 2000 RecordSearch Book: The invertebrates of Macquarie Island Greenslade, Penelope The invertebrates of Macquarie Island Kingston, Tas. Australian Antarctic Division 2006 Journal Article: Glaciological bodies: Australian visions of the Antarctic ice sheet Antonello, Alessandro Glaciological bodies: Australian visions of the Antarctic ice sheet 2018 International Review of Environmental History 4 1 125-44