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 Amundse
Mawson in 1914
Fort Street Model School, 1872
University of Sydney
Mitchell Building, University of Adelaide
Air-tractor sledge
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The air-tractor sledge was a converted fixed-wing aircraft taken on the 1911–1914 Australasian Antarctic Expedition, the first plane to be taken to the Antarctic.
The air-tractor sledge in 1912
The plane in testing, before being shipped to Australia
The wreckage of the plane after it crashed at Cheltenham Racecourse in Adelaide
Bob Bage, Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis and Frank Bickerton work on the air-tractor sledge in its hangar