Phillip Law, with beard, Director of the Antarctic Division of the Dept. of External Affairs, and leader of the Aust. National Research Expeditions with T. H. Dalton, asst. sales manager of de Kavilland?s, Australia. They are inspecting the retractable landing-skis and wheels of the Beaver plane at Bankstown which is being assembled there and will be handed over to the RAAF crew who will use it at Mawson in Mac-Robertson Land, Australian Antarctic territory, for exploration and survey flights over the Antarctic continent. June 18, 1955. (Photo by Frank Albert Charles Burke/Fairfax Media).