Another great little article here on the Shortfinals blog about interesting and pretty daring expeditions to Antarctica in the 1950s, utilising the good old Auster.
The Auster Antarctica – before climate change had been thought of!.
There are many other great posts on historic aircraft and aviation history over on Shortfinals – check it out.
The Auster Diaries 
Thanks for reposting this from my blog ‘Shortfinals’! I have written – a LOT – about Austers, as I used to be professionally involved with them. Here is another post of mine on an Autocrat, G-AGTO, based at Duxford. http://shortfinals.wordpress.com/2013/12/28/a-vision-in-silver-auster-autocrat-g-agto/ Remember to type ‘Auster’ in the small search box at the bottom of any blog page. Cheers! SF