Douglas Mawson
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Sir Douglas Mawson was an Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer and academic. He is known for being a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, along with Roald Amundsen
Mawson in 1914
Fort Street Model School, 1872
Mitchell Building, University of Adelaide
Arid land in the Flinders Ranges
Antarctica
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Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. An
Douglas Mawson
…South magnetic pole. Mawson raised the necessary funds in a year, from British and Australian governments, and from commercial backers interested in mining and whaling. Over nearly three years, the group mapped the Antarctic coastline, explored other nearby locations such as the subantarctic Macquarie…
Vinson Massif from the northwest, the highest peak in Antarctica
Glossopteris sp. leaf from the Permian of Antarctica
Blue ice covering Lake Fryxell, in the Transantarctic Mountains
Temperate conditions near the coast in December 2006