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out of the interior was completed in 1965 and the building extended in 1969.
It is currently heated and used as an overflow plumber's workshop and contains equipment for cutting sheet metal.

Magnetic Absolute Hut
The Magnetic Absolute Hut is a pitched-roof PTB Mark II building, 3.9 m x 3.6 m. It was erected on Heard Island in 1952 and re-erected at Mawson station in 1955. The hut is clad in onazote-insulated plywood-skinned panels, rests on sleepers, and is guyed to bedrock. The hut has seven large rectangular windows and four skylights. Its internal fixtures include a wooden pier to support magnetometers and other instruments. All the building's fittings are non‑magnetic (e.g. brass door handles).

Electrical Store
The Electrical Store is a 7.3 m x 3.6 m plywood PTB Mark III building with a pitched-roof. It was constructed in 1954 and is the only remaining of a row of five huts originally running from the Radio Hut to the sea. The foundations comprise a stone base and timber sleepers. The building is painted yellow and orange.
The Electrical Store has also been known or used as Stores Hut #1 and the medical store.

Dovers (Old Sleeping Quarters)
Dovers is 9.7 m x 5.4 m and was erected in 1969 in the final form of the PTB Mark III style. It has pipe-scaffold foundations and is zincanneal steel clad. Dovers has five sleeping cubicles, ablutions and the 'OICery' (OIC's bedroom and office).

Wilkins (Old Sleeping Quarters)
Wilkins is an 8.2 m x 4.5 m PTB Mark IV building erected in 1957. Wilkins is flat-roofed, insulated aluminium clad, and set on a wooden frame. The building has several rooms and fixtures: a cold porch, corridor and shower recess, and six dongas with beds, wardrobes and expeditioner-made furniture. The buildings foundations comprise a stone base and timber sleepers.

Shackleton (Old Sleeping Quarters)
Shackleton is an 8.2 m x 4.5 m PTB Mark IV flat-roofed building of insulated aluminium clad panels attached to a wooden frame. It was erected in 1957 and is ratcheted to wooden joists on railway sleeper stacks, and guyed from the roof and one joist. The building was used for accommodation and internally contains a cold porch, corridor and five dongas with beds, wardrobes and other fittings, and a lounge.

Dog Platform and Hut
The Dog Platform was built in 1976 and is made up of a wooden platform on wooden joists set on a galvanised scaffold drilled into bedrock. A 'PID' field hut and an asbestos cement panel dog hut were later added. The hut housed glaciology monitoring equipment at West Bay. When positioned on the platform it stored dog meat and equipment.

The following early structures are spread