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The late Sir Russel Madigan (L) and Dr Michael Madigan (R), sons of Cecil Madigan, Mawson's meteorologist, gaze intently from the deck of MV Icebird as she approaches Cape Denison.

One can only imagine their inner thoughts as they contemplate this remote corner of the world where their father carved his place into Antarctic exploration history more than 70 years earlier.

Cape Denison
East Antarctica
5 January 1986