Who’s Who
(1868-1954)
Christian missionary in Korea
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Commander Jenny Daetz and Lieutenant Commander Jan Noonan
Commander Jenny Daetz (Morrison) (1968 - )
In 2001 Royal Australian Navy hydrographic officer, Lieutenant Commander Jenny Daetz became the first RAN surveyor in seventy years to visit Mawson’s Hut in isolated Commonwealth Bay, Antarctica. Lieutenant Commander Daetz charted navigational hazards in previously poorly-charted channels and also updated the tidal data collected by Sir Douglas Mawson in 1912.
Joan Russell (1946- )
Three years after she joined the South Australia Public Service in 1986 to head the Equal Opportunities Branch in the state Department of Personnel and Industrial Relations, Joan Russell took leave without pay to undertake an unusual mission – to go to Antarctica with the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition (ANARE) as the Station Leader at Casey.
Korean Missionaries Bessie Moore, Belle Menzies and Agnes Brown
Bessie Moore, Belle Menzies and Agnes Brown c. 1900
The Australian Presbyterian Mission was established in Busan, South Korea in the early 1890s by three women missionaries: Belle Menzies (1856–1935), Bessie Moore (1863-1956) and Agnes Brown (1868–1954).
