The Edge of Ice

The Edge of Ice is a 1951 Australian radio play by Colin Thiele told the story of a handful of castaways in a boat in Antarctica.

It won first prize for best radio drama held by the ABC and the Federation of Commercial Stations in 1951 for Australia's Jubilee (Thiele also won Best Feature for The Golden Tide about wheat).

Leslie Rees later wrote "Of the Jubilee winners the future holds most for Colin Thiele."

Premise
According to ABC Weekly the play was about "a group of men who, together with the captain’s wife and little son, are the only survivors from a shipwreck. The party drift in an open boat on the Southern Ocean, and when at their last gasp reach a barren island, where they live on seal meat. The play’s story is carried forward by a poetic narration which brought forth high praise from the judges. It dramatises the adventures of the boat’s party with notes of hope and tragedy."