Ross Road, named for Sir James Clark Ross, Aston Abbots, Aylesbury, Bucks, UK.
Site No 227
Ross Road, named for Sir James Clark Ross, Stanley, Falkland Islands.
Site No 295
Scott Road, named for Robert Falcon Scott, Central Cardiff, Wales, UK.
Site No 351
James Street, named for Sir James Clark Ross, Stanley, Falkland Islands.
Site No 352
Scoresby Close, named for William Scoresby, Stanley, Falkland Islands.
Site No 353
Discovery Close, named for Robert Scott's ship, Stanley, Falkland Islands.
Site No 354
Shackleton Drive, named for Sir Ernest Shackleton, Stanley, Falkland Islands.
Site No 355
John Biscoe Road, named for John Biscoe, Stanley, Falkland Islands.
Site No 356
Endurance Avenue, named for Shackleton's ship, Stanley, Falkland Islands.
Site No 357
Crozier Place, named for Francis Crozier, Stanley, Falkland Islands.
Site No 377
Falcon Street, named for Robert Falcon Scott, Dunedin, New Zealand.
In Dunedin, John and James Streets in Kaikorai Valley were renamed Falcon and Oates Streets in 1913, though it was not until 21 June 1939 that the memorial plaque was unveiled. It reads: 'Falcon Street was named after Capt. Robert Falcon Scott R.N. Leader of the British Antarctic Expedition 1912 in commemoration of his brave endurance and heroic fortitude. Oates Street was named after Capt. L.E.G. Oates, Inniskilling Dragoons, of the same expedition, to commemorate his supreme act of self-sacrifice.' Mayor A.H. Allen, Bishop Fitchett and Howard Ninnis, who had served in Shackleton's 1914-16 expedition, spoke at the ceremony.
The original plaque--shown below--appears to have been replaced by one of a slightly different design.
Site No 378
Oates Street, named for L.E.G. Oates, Dunedin, New Zealand.
See No 377 above.
Site No 437
Davis Street, named for John Davis, Stanley, Falkland Islands.
Site No 445
Brisbane Road, named for Matthew Brisbane, Stanley, Falkland Islands.
Site No 466
Scott Road, named for Robert Falcon Scott, Milehouse, Plymouth, UK.
Site No 467
Oates Road, named for L.E.G. Oates, Milehouse, Plymouth, UK.
Site No 468
Wilson Crescent, named for Edward A. Wilson, Milehouse, Plymouth, UK.
Site No 469
Bowers Road, named for Henry 'Birdie' Bowers, Milehouse, Plymouth, UK.
Site No 470
Evans Place, named for Edgar Evans, Milehouse, Plymouth, UK.
Site No 471
Terra Nova Green, named for Scott's ship, Milehouse, Plymouth, UK.
Site No 472
Scott Road, named for Robert Falcon Scott, Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK.
Site No 493
Numerous roads named for Antarcticans in Mawson, Australia.
The suburb of Mawson was formally established on 12 May 1966. It was named after Sir Douglas Mawson (1882-1958), Antarctic explorer; lecturer 1905-1920, Professor of Geology and Mineralogy University of Adelaide 1921 to 1952, Emeritus Professor 1953-1958; member of Shackleton Expedition 1907-1909; leader of Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE) 1911-1914; leader of British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) 1929-1931. After the second World War, Mawson was a major driving force in convincing the Australian Government to establish the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) in 1947 and which continue to this day.
The roads within the suburb follow the Antarctic exploration theme.
AINSWORTH STREET: George Frederick Ainsworth (1878-1949), Meteorologist and Leader of Macquarie Island Party, Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1914; established a radio station to pick up and relay signals from the continental party led by Mawson; carried out the first detailed scientific investigation of the island.
AURORA CLOSE: Ship Aurora used in the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1914.
BAGE PLACE: Captain Edward Frederick Robert Bage (1888-1915), Leader of Southern Party Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1914; with E N Webb and J F Hurley from November 1912 to January 1913 made major magnetic survey in the vicinity of the South Magnetic Pole; killed in action at Gallipoli, Turkey 1915.
BERNACCHI STREET: Louis Charles Bernacchi (1874-1942), Tasmanian physicist; member British Antarctic Expedition under Carsten Borchgrevink 1898-1900; first use of dogs in the Antarctic and first expedition to winter on the Antarctic mainland (1899); with Scott on the Discovery National Antarctic Expedition 1901-1904.
BLAKE PLACE: Captain Leslie Russell Blake, (1890-1918), member Macquarie Island Party, Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1914; died of wounds in France
1918.
BRIDE PLACE: Dr Thomas Francis Bride (1851-1927), librarian, Member of first Australian Antarctic Exploration Committee 1886; Member of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia; Librarian Melbourne Public Library 1881-1895.
COLBECK STREET: Captain William R Colbeck (1871-1930), magnetician, member of British Antarctic Expedition 1898-1900 under Carsten Borchgrevink Captain of the Morning Star on two expeditions to relieve Scott's Discovery expedition 1902-1904.
DEBENHAM STREET: Professor Frank Debenham, (1883-1965), Australian geographer and geologist; member Scott's second expedition British National Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913, explored the dry valleys and parts of Victoria Land; professor of geography Cambridge University 1931-1946; instrumental in setting up the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge 1926; Editor of the Institute's Polar Record.
DU FAUR PLACE: DU FAUR STREET: Eccleston Frederic Du Faur (1832-1915), cartographer, closely associated with Australian and New Guinea exploration; prominent advocate of Antarctic exploration and research particularly in meteorology and sea ice; advocated a tourist trip to Antarctic waters in 1892 as a means of stirring interest; foundation Member New South Wales Geographical Society; Foundation Secretary and Treasurer National Art Gallery.
ENDERBY PLACE: ENDERBY STREET: Enderby family of London, merchants and shipowners, whose captains carried out notable exploration work within the Antarctic Circle. Samuel Enderby was a promoter of voyages of discovery and the father of British whaling, his son Charles was one of the early patrons of British Antarctic exploration and succeeded to the family business on the death of his father. In 1830 he helped to found the Royal Geographical Society. Sponsored the sealing voyages of Biscoe, Rea and Balleny and in 1839 established a whaling station on the Auckland Islands.
HANNAM PLACE: Walter H Hannam (1885-1965), mechanic and wireless operator, member Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1914; associated with transmission of the first wireless message from Antarctica in February 1913 when two way communication between Adelie Land and Macquarie Island was achieved for the first time.
HEARD STREET: Heard Island, a staging point for Australian Antarctic exploration in the initial years after the setting up the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions in 1947; site of a research station
1948-55. Heard Island derived its name from an American, Captain John Heard of the Oriental who rediscovered the island on 25 November 1853.
HOADLEY STREET: Charles Archibald Hoadley (1887-1948), geologist, member Australian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1914; Principal, Footscray Technical College 1916-1920 and 1923-1948; Chief Commissioner of Scouts, Victoria 1927-1937.
HODGEMAN STREET: Alfred J Hodgeman (1886-1964), cartographer, member of Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911-1914.
HOSEASON STREET: Richard James Hoseason (1924-1952), Radio Operator, member of Heard Island Party, Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition 1952, drowned when swept out to sea. There is a small commemorative plaque to Hoseason set into the ground just off the pavement in Hoseason Street
near its junction with Hoadley Street.
HURLEY STREET: James Francis Hurley (1890-1962), photographer, author and
explorer; in 1911 bribed a train conductor to secure a seat next to Mawson
and persuaded Mawson to take him to Antarctica; official photographer
Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1914 and was a member of the
magnetic pole party establishing a sledging record of 66 kilometers in one
day; British Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1914-1916; when the
Endurance was crushed in the pack ice he managed to save 120 of over 500
photographic plates and they have since become Hurley's greatest legacy -
stark simple and stirring records of that heroic ordeal; joined Mawson's
British Australian and New Zealand Expedition 1929-1931; explored parts of
Central Australia and New Guinea; was an official Australian war
photographer in both world wars.
JELBART STREET: John E Jelbart (1927-1951), physicist with Heard Island
Party, Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition 1948; Australian
observer Norwegian British Swedish Antarctic Expedition 1949-1951, drowned
near Maudheim Base, Dronning Maud Land.
JOYCE PLACE: Ernest Edward Mills Joyce (1875-1940), participated in several
expeditions to the Antarctic including the Discovery and Nimrod expeditions
with Shackleton 1907-1909; in 1911 he selected the dogs for Mawson's AAE
and Scott; in 1914-1917 led the Ross Sea Party of Shackleton's unsuccessful
trans Antarctic expedition.
LASERON PLACE: Charles Francis Laseron (1887-1959), conchologist, author,
biologist with Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1914.
MacROBERTSON STREET:, part of Australian Antarctic Territory named for Sir
Macpherson Robertson (1860-1945), an active supporter of Antarctic
exploration who contributed to the cost of the British Australian and New
Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) 1929-1931.
(NOTE: the street name has no internal punctuation, but the area in
Antarctica is often written as Mac.Robertson Land or Mac-Robertson Land
because of the combination of first/last names used for its naming.)
MARKHAM STREET: Sir Clements Robert Markham (1830-1916), author, President
Royal Geographical Society 1893-1905; aroused interest in antarctic
exploration and research; President International Geographical Congress
1894-1899; his choice of Scott as leader and his insistence on full naval
control, determined the final shape of the 1901-1904 Discovery expedition.
MAWSON DRIVE: MAWSON PLACE: Sir Douglas Mawson, (1882-1958), Antarctic
explorer; lecturer 1905-1920, Professor of Geology and Mineralogy
University of Adelaide 1921 to 1952, Emeritus Professor 1953-1958; member
of Shackleton Expedition 1907-1909; leader of Australasian Antarctic
Expedition (AAE) 1911-1914; leader of British Australian and New Zealand
Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) 1929-1931. After the second World
War, Mawson was a major driving force in convincing the Australian
Government to establish the Australian National Antarctic Research
Expeditions (ANARE) in 1947 and which continue to this day.
MERTZ PLACE: Dr Xavier Mertz (1883-1913), a law graduate from Switzerland
and an expert skier but taken on as a dog handler on the Australasian
Antarctic Expedition 1911-14, trekked with Mawson and Lieutenant B E S
Ninnis from Adelie to Oates Land but died on the return journey
MOUNTEVANS STREET: Admiral Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, 1st Baron
Mountevans (1881-1951), member of British Antarctic Expedition, 1909-1913;
PASCO STREET: Commander Crawford Aitcheson Denham Pasco (1818-1898), naval
officer associated with founding settlement at Port Essington 1838, and
with hydrographic surveys of Australian waters 1839-1842; member and first
president of the first Australian Antarctic Committee 1886-1892; secretary
to the Committee on Antarctic Exploration set up under the Australasian
Association for the Advancement of Science 1891.
POWER STREET: Harold Power (1893-1914), leader Commonwealth Meteorological
Expedition Macquarie Island 1913-1914; lost with the Commonwealth fisheries
steamer Endeavour which disappeared without a trace after relieving
Macquarie Island in 1914.
RYMILL PLACE: John Riddoch Rymill (1905-1968), polar explorer and grazier;
participated in expeditions to the Arctic and the Antarctic; member of the
British Arctic Air Route expedition 1930-1931; leader of the 1934-1937
British expedition to Graham Land which, through the combined use of his
vessel the Penola, aircraft, radio, a motor tractor and sixty-four dogs and
sledges, proved that Graham Land was a peninsula and not an archipelago as
previously thought; a proponent of the small but well planned, trained,
equipped and manned expedition.
SCOBLE PLACE: Charles H Scoble (1916-1948), engineer, Macquarie Island
Party, Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition 1948, accidentally
drowned during the expedition.
SHACKLETON CIRCUIT: Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922), member British
National Antarctic Expedition 1901-1904 marching with Scott and Wilson on
the southern journey in 1902; Leader of British National Antarctic
Expedition 1907-1908, during this expedition led a party which almost
reached the South Magnetic Pole; Leader British Imperial Trans-Antarctic
Expedition 1914-1916; sailed to the Antarctic for the last time in the
Quest in 1921.
STILLWELL PLACE: Frank Leslie StilIwell (1888-1963), geologist Australasian
Antarctic Expedition 1911-1914; prominent member Royal Society of Victoria;
Research Officer Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research
Organisation until 1953.
TOUTCHER STREET: Norman Champion Toutcher (1884-1924), Chief Naval Officer
of the Aurora, ship of Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1914.
WILKINS STREET: Sir George Hubert Wilkins (1888-1958), explorer and author;
Australian Flying Corps in the closing stages of the first world war; spent
1913-1917 as photographer with Stefansson's Arctic expedition and spent a
further three years in the Arctic making major exploratory flights north
from Alaska with Ben Eielson; in 1928-29 led an expedition funded by
William Randolph Hearst and made the first Antarctic flight from Deception
Island over Graham Land to 71o 20' S; attempted to take a submarine under
the Arctic ice to the north pole in 1931; took a series of expeditions to
Antarctica with Lincoln Ellsworth acting as leader of the support team
during Ellsworth's flights.
(This text draws on material in 'Canberra's Suburb and Street Names",
Department of the Environment Land and Planning, Canberra 1992)
Supplied by Gordon Bain, Hobart, Tasmania.
Site No 550
Shackleton Road, named for Sir Ernest Shackleton, Mt. Eden, Auckland, NZ.
Site No 649
Scott Road, named for Robert Falcon Scott, Dundee, Scotland, UK.
Site No 654
Roald Amundsen gate [Roald Amundsen Street], named for Roald Amundsen, Oslo, Norway.
Site No 671
Scott Street, named for Robert Falcon Scott, Orbost, Victoria, Australia.
Site No 672
Wilson Street, named for Edward A. Wilson, Orbost, Victoria, Australia.
Site No 673
Oates Street, named for L.E.G. Oates, Orbost, Victoria, Australia.
Site No 674
Bowers Street, named for Henry 'Birdie' Bowers, Orbost, Victoria, Australia.
Site No 675
Evans Street, named for Edgar Evans, Orbost, Victoria, Australia.
Site No 676
Shackleton Street, named for Sir Ernest Shackleton, Orbost, Victoria, Australia.
Site No 677
Mawson Street, named for Sir Douglas Mawson, Orbost, Victoria, Australia.
Site No 678
David Street, named for Edgeworth David, Orbost, Victoria, Australia.
Site No 688
Martin Rønne's Veien/Gate, named for Martin Rønne, Horten, Norway.
Site No 709
Mawson Road, NOT named for Sir Douglas Mawson, Cambridge, UK.
Site No 766
C.A. Larsens vei/way, named for C.A. Larsen, Larvik, Norway.
Site No 768
Enderby Street, named for the Enderby brothers, Greenwich, London SE10, UK
.
Source: Ian Church, Last Port to Antarctica, p.32. Original appeared in the Evening Star.
The plaque reads:
Richard James Hoseason
Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions
Radio Operator
Born 17 July 1924
Drowned Heard Island 26 May 1952)
