Historical information

Richard W. Richards was Principal of the Ballarat School of Mines, and was a member of the Shackleton Antarctic Expedition. He was one of seven survivors of the Ross Sea Party who were stranded in Antarctica during Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated 1914 expedition.

Dick Richards died in 1985.

Physical description

Photocopy of a letter from Correspondence from Prime Minister Bob Hawke to Richard W. Richards in relation to the presentation of a bust to the Australian Antarctic Division.