Western Base party

The eight-man Western Party was deposited by the SY Aurora on the Shackleton Ice Shelf at Queen Mary Land.

[1] The leader of the team was Frank Wild and the party included the geologist Charles Hoadley.

The Western Base Party was collected on February 23, 1913, by the Aurora, with no loss of life.

[1] The Western Base Party made a number of discoveries including; Drygalski Island was first sited by the Western Base Party but it was not until the return voyage of Australasian Antarctic Expedition that the island was accurately identified.

He was later honored by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN)'s naming of Kennedy Peak (Antarctica) for him, in recognition of the close correlation of his 1912–13 running survey of the eastern half of the Queen Mary Coast with the US-ACAN map of 1955 compiled from aerial photographs.