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enable observations. Two of the stations, the Absolute Magnetic Hut and the Magnetograph Hut, have been described above. The main azimuth mark (west mark) consists of a 7.6 x 5.1 cm timber, about 1.22 m long, around which a cairn of stones has been constructed. It is located on top of what is now known as Azimuth Ridge, approximately 386 m west of the Absolute Magnetic Hut.

Located about 44 m to the east of the Absolute Magnetic Hut is the dip-circle station. This mark consists of a pointed piece of 7.6 x 5.1 cm timber with a hole bored through it and built around with a stone cairn. The fifth station, in an ice cave approximately 1173 m away, a few degrees east of south of the Absolute Magnetic Hut, no longer exists.

Cultural Heritage Objects

Artefacts, and artefact scatters relating to the AAE, have been observed across Cape Denison and on the plateau. Major concentrations of artefacts occur around the huts, especially the Main Hut. The main concentration of external artefacts at Cape Denison is to the north of the Main Hut. Mawson himself described the plume of discarded items from the AAE domestic quarters that extended to the north of the Hut. The artefact scatter does not appear to represent just a rubbish tip. Homogeneous collections of material, such as wood, suggest that it was used as a source of material for recycling. Other artefacts are present, such as the remains of clothing, food, refuse and numerous portions of seals with cut marks on their bones.

There are a number of other artefact scatters in the Hut Valley area. Seven individual or groups of artefacts have been recorded in the area to the east of Hut Valley, extending as far as John O'Groats. They include seal and penguin meat caches, bamboo poles, pieces of copper wire, survey markers and pieces of wood. Individual artefacts are scattered across the whole of Cape Denison.

More than twenty years of archaeological investigations in the Main Hut have recorded more than 1700 items including food tins and foodstuffs, bottles, photographic plates, reference books, newspapers, novels, notices, pictures, chemicals and developing paper.

Post-BANZARE Fabric

Granholm Hut (67°00'29"S, 142°39'26"E), a temporary shelter and workshop established by the 1978 ANARE party 160 m northwest of the Main Hut, sits within the visual protection zone of the historic site. It has been retained as an emergency refuge and a convenient place to store conservation tools and equipment. The hut has been painted to blend into the rocky landscape to lessen its visual impact on the site.

Sitting outside the visual protection zone 400 m east of the Main Hut, Sørensen Hut (67°00'29"S, 142°40'12"E) is the