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 Antarctical during Ernest Shackletyon's ill-fated 1914 expedition.

Dick Richards died in 1985.

Physical description

Three handwritten pages on Richard Walter Richards, Physicist with the Shackleton Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (191401917) and Principal of the Ballarat School of Mines (1948-1958).