Eventually Mawson took Whetter to his study to talk it over.

An appetite whetter if there ever was one.

The peppery taste of the radish is an excellent appetite whetter.

A spicy Mediterranean goat-cheese spread is an eye-opening appetite whetter.

This is just an appetite whetter.

Upon his return to the base, Whetter's supposed laziness continued to put him at odds with Mawson.

Later razors have a 3-row Greek key design and with the "The Whetter" trademark near the end of the case.

The old Staffordshire name for the species, 'Saw Whetter', refers to the bird's scolding call.

According to Cecil Madigan, meteorologist at the base, Whetter was given this task "because he was of little use for anything else."

In St Austell, one estate agent, May, Whetter and Grose, sold more than 20 houses last month.

Prior to the AAE, Whetter studied medicine at the University of Otago.

While no one knows what will be found, Dr. Eisner said of the fungal discovery, "This kind of find is a real whetter of the appetite."

According to Mawson's diary, Whetter told him that the leader's insistence on near-constant work had meant several men deliberately worked slowly, to avoid being assigned new tasks.

Accompanying Bickerton and the air-tractor were cartographer Alfred Hodgeman and surgeon Leslie Whetter.

The Cornish Nationalist Party was formed in 1975 by Dr James Whetter and is currently not registered to contest elections.

After the expedition ship SY Aurora returned the majority of men to Australia in early 1913, Whetter headed back to New Zealand.

His particular task would be to steer the air-tractor along the western coast of Commonwealth Bay, accompanied by Dr Leslie Whetter and Alfred Hodgeman.

During 1912, Whetter joined two sledging parties, the first to lay supplies, and the second to explore the area to the west of the Main Base at Cape Denison.

Mawson thought Whetter lazy, and the two clashed several times, Mawson describing Whetter as "not fit for a polar expedition".

Aside from being recorded as a member of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1944-45, there is little public information about Whetter's life after the AAE.

In 1982, Heidt and his team of Wayne Charteris, John Whetter and Warren Rechenmacher finished 5-6 at the Labatt Brier.

Bickerton and his companions began their trek on 3 December 1912, with Bickerton piloting the heavily-laden air-tractor and Whetter and Hodgeman proceeding on foot.

Discovered by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-14) under Douglas Mawson, who named it for Dr. Leslie Whetter, a surgeon with the expedition.

Dr Whetter and the CNP still publish a quarterly journal, The Cornish Banner (An Baner Kernewek).