Record ID:
60598309 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Heading:
Birth:
  • Basel, Switzerland
Death:
  • Antarctica
Fields of activity:
  • Exploration
Occupations:
  • Mountaineers Skier
Notes:
  • Xavier Mertz (6 October 1882 - 8 January 1913) was a Swiss explorer, mountaineer and skier, from Basel. He took part in the Far Eastern Party, a 1912-13 component of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, which claimed his life. The Mertz Glacier is named after him -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavier_Mertz
  • Bage cooks the meal, Hurley in his sleeping bag, 1912
  • Mertz & me : by Basilisk : adventures of an Antarctic sledge-dog
Local system number:
  • (VSL)1582966
Cataloguing source:
  • VSL VSL TSL