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	Douglas Mawson Summary
		Mawson chose to lead his own expedition, the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, to King George V Land and Adelie Land, the sector of the Antarctic continent immediately south of Australia, which at the time was entirely unexplored.
		Mawson served in the war as a Major in the British Ministry of Munitions.
		Also, Mawson Peak (Heard Island), Mawson Station (Antarctica), the geology building on the main University of Adelaide campus, and a TAFE institute, the Douglas Mawson Institute of Technology, are named after him.
	www.bookrags.com /Douglas_Mawson (1451 words)

	Douglas Mawson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mawson chose to lead his own expedition, the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, to King George V Land and Adelie Land, the sector of the Antarctic continent immediately south of Australia, which at the time was almost entirely unexplored.
		Mawson served in the war as a Major in the British Ministry of Munitions.
		Also, Mawson Peak (Heard Island), Mawson Station (Antarctica), the geology building on the main University of Adelaide campus, and a South Australian TAFE institute are named after him.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Douglas_Mawson (709 words)

	Douglas Mawson - Courtesy of: The Antarctic Connection
		Mawson and Mertz had to turn back and in order to survive they were forced to shoot and eat the remaining huskies.
		Mawson was near death - his feet were bloody, his skin was falling away and he had lost a lot of weight.
		Mawson loved to have his family around him and his two daughters came to know the qualities that made him a great leader.
	www.antarcticconnection.com /antarctic/history/mawson.shtml (861 words)

	Encyclopedia
		Mawson organized and commanded (1911–14) an Australasian expedition to explore Antarctic lands south of Australia; two of his companions perished during this arduous journey.
		Mawson was the leader of the British, Australian, and New Zealand Antarctic Expedition from 1929 to 1931.
		William Orville Douglas, the longest-serving Supreme Court justice in U.S. history, was born in Maine, Minnesota, on October 16, 1898.
	www.history.com /encyclopedia.do?vendorId=FWNE.fw..ma069500.a#FWNE.fw..ma069500.a (451 words)

	The Australian Institute of Political Science
		Mawson and Mertz were left with little food for themselves and none for the remaining dogs, and had 300 miles to traverse to return to base in time to meet the ship that was to return the expedition to Australia.
		Mawson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1923 and subsequently became a foundation member of the Australian Academy of Science.
		Mawson is also commemorated in the Mawson Lecture and Medal for earth sciences, awarded biennially by the Australian Academy of Science (AAS).
	www.tallpoppies.net.au /cavalcade/mawson.htm (1159 words)

	Forging The Nation - Sir Douglas Mawson
		Douglas Mawson was born in England and came to Australia as a youngster.
		In 1912 Mawson performed an extraordinary feat of lone survival when, 500 kilometres from base, a companion and most of their provisions were lost in a crevasse.
		Mawson was knighted in 1914 and died, aged 76, in 1958.
	www.awm.gov.au /forging/australians/mawson.htm (210 words)

	Mawson Station - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mawson Station is a permanent base in Antarctica managed by the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD).
		Mawson is the oldest continuously inhabited Antarctic station below the Antarctic Circle.
		Mawson Station is the only station to use wind generators for over 70% of its power needs, saving over 600,000 litres of diesel fuel per year.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mawson_Station (154 words)

	Antarctic Buildings a Part of Australia's National Heritage Media Release Attachment: Mawson Station Background 26 May ...
		Sir Douglas Mawson, geologist and explorer, was born in Yorkshire, on 5 May 1882.
		Mawson undertook further study in geology and became a pioneer in the field of chemical aspects of geology and geo- chemistry.
		Mawson was Knighted in 1914 and received an OBE in 1920.
	www.deh.gov.au /minister/env/96/mr26may96att.html (1235 words)

	Australian Antarctic Division - Sir Douglas Mawson
		Mawson became lecturer in mineralogy and petrology at the University of Adelaide in 1905, describing radioactive minerals from Radium Hill and undertaking extensive fieldwork in the Flinders Ranges, where he studied past glacial activity, and Barrier Range, including Broken Hill.
		Mawson was a member of the team led by David which climbed Mount Erebus, Antarctica's only active volcano, in March 1908.
		Mawson returned to the Antarctic twice more, in 1929 and 1931, as leader of the first and second British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expeditions (BANZARE), concentrating on oceanography, Antarctic and subantarctic marine biology, and Antarctic coastal exploration to the west of Shackleton Ice Shelf.
	www.aad.gov.au /stations/mawson/Mawson_biography.asp (1115 words)

	Mawson, Sir Douglas - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		MAWSON, SIR DOUGLAS [Mawson, Sir Douglas] 1882-1958, Australian antarctic explorer and geologist, b.
		As a member of the scientific staff of Sir Ernest Shackleton's south polar expedition (1907-9), Mawson took part in the famous ascent of Mt. Erebus and the journey to the south magnetic pole.
		On this trip Mawson's two companions died, and he was barely able to save himself.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-mawson-s1.html (414 words)

	THE MAWSON ANTARCTIC COLLECTION APPEAL
		It is quite some time now since the Mawson project was first conceived and the University of Adelaide and the South Australian Museum got together with the Mawson family to plan a fitting and permanent tribute to Sir Douglas Mawson's life and achievements and to make his story accessible to future generations.
		Convenient access to Douglas Mawson's papers, diaries, reports and photographs is, of course, a great boon to historical researchers and biographers, and the staff at the Coach House have been pleased to offer research assistance for publications related to Mawson.
		Douglas Mawson is a hero and inspiration to Peter, as he has been to many Australians.
	www.suburbia.com.au /~anarensw/maca/macanew3.htm (1161 words)

	Antarctica and Sir Douglas Mawson - Australia's Culture Portal
		Douglas Mawson studied mining, engineering, chemistry and geology at university, and was a lecturer in mineralogy at the University of Adelaide in 1905.
		Mawson was knighted in 1914 and returned to the University of Adelaide in 1919 where he was later appointed professor in 1921.
		Mawson and the other early Antarctic expeditioners started a series of weather reports which are being continued today as part of scientific work on predicting weather patterns and understanding climate change.
	www.acn.net.au /articles/mawson (1752 words)

	Share the Journey - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Mawson and his party of young scientists - who were mainly drawn from New Zealand and Australian Universities - began building their accommodation and workshop.
		Mawson had intended the party of 18 to spend the winter of 1912 at the base and to be picked up by the Aurora early in 1913.
		Mawson was weak and starving, having lost much of his skin and all of his hair, his face and fingers spilt and bleeding, the soles of his feet held in place by bandages.
	www.sofweb.vic.edu.au /claypoles/hist/mawson.htm (517 words)

	Douglas Mawson (1882-1958) - About Us - The University of Sydney
		Mawson returned to Antarctica in 1911-13 for scientific work, but again was involved in an extraordinary journey of more than 160km alone, taking thirty days, after his two companions died.
		Mawson had particular interests in economic geology and was involved in some small family companies exploring potential mineral deposits in South Australia.
		Mawson, knighted in 1914 for his Antarctic work, is commemorated there by Mawson, the first permanent Australian staion, established in 1954.
	www.science.usyd.edu.au /about_us/fame_mawson.shtml (453 words)

	Mawson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Douglas Mawson was born in Bradford, Yorkshire but spent most of his life in Australia.
		Mawson’s successes sound modest when set against the excitement and tragedy of Shackleton and Scott’s expeditions but then he was successful whilst they failed in their objectives.
		Mawson had eaten the last of the dogs and was slowly starving to death but over 100 miles from base.
	www.fortunecity.co.uk /amusement/golf/200/mawson.html (586 words)

	Douglas Mawson
		Douglas Mawson was a geologist who was among the first scientists to explore the continent of Antarctica.
		Mawson and Mertz began to head back to their base camp, braving the cold and surviving by eating dogmeat.
		Sir Douglas Mawson - Mawson, Sir Douglas, 1882–1958, Australian antarctic explorer and geologist, b.
	www.infoplease.com /biography/var/douglasmawson.html (294 words)

	Postcards - Previous Feature: Sir Douglas Mawson Exhibition - SA Museum
		Mawson was a geologist with broad interests, which throughout his academic career, took him to places like the Flinders Ranges to study glacial activity in South Australia.
		"Mawson and two companions, Mertz and Ninnis, were doing their scientific exploration when Ninnis and the sledge with most of their supplies, fell down a crevasse and he's still there - they didn't recover him and the supplies and the dogs were all lost".
		Mawson was more than one hundred miles from his main base and in a weakened state.
	www.postcards.sa.com.au /features/douglas_mawson.html (689 words)

	Douglas Mawson Telescope
		Douglas Mawson was perhaps the earliest antarctic astronomer, having discovered the first meteorite in Antarctica in 1912 and realising its significance for science.
		The Douglas Mawson Telescope will be used to investigate the origins of planets, stars, and galaxies in the Universe.
		The Douglas Mawson Telescope will be complementary to future space-based telescopes such as SIRTF (Space Infrared Telescope Facility) and NGST (Next Generation Space Telescope).
	www.phys.unsw.edu.au /news/mawson.html (851 words)

	Complementarity with other Facilities
		Douglas Mawson, the pioneering Australian Antarctic explorer and scientist, was also, in a sense, the first Antarctic astronomer.
		Mawson realised both what it was, and the significance of the discovery for science.
		Mawson Station, Australia's first base on the Antarctic continent, was named after the explorer and established in 1954.
	www.atnf.csiro.au /pasa/18_2/burton/paper/node4.html (818 words)

	The My Hero Project - Sir Douglas Mawson
		In his quest to increase academia's body of knowledge, Mawson was forced to struggle for survival in the deep cold of Antarctica.
		In December of 1911, Douglas Mawson and his crew headed toward Antarctica aboard a wooden expedition vessel called The Aurora.
		Mawson and two other explorers, Belgrave Ninnis and Xavier Mertz, set out on a journey east from Main Base toward the Transatlantic Mountains.
	www.myhero.com /myhero/hero.asp?hero=d_mawson (838 words)

	Australian Antarctic Division - Mawson
		PM Mawson is situated on an isolated outcrop of rock on the coast in Mac.Robertson Land, at the edge of the Antarctic plateau at 67'36'S 6252'E. It is Australia's first continental station and the longest continuously operating station south of the Antarctic Circle.
		The plateau surface in the coastal region is mostly blue ice, occasionally covered by light snow in winter and spring.
		Mawson is the only Antarctic station to use wind generators for up to 90% of its power needs at times.
	www.aad.gov.au /?casid=6909 (173 words)

	Sir Douglas Mawson
		Sir Douglas Mawson was one of Australia's greatest explorers,noted primarily for his extensive work in Antarctica.
		Mawson's expedition team was selected primarily from Australian and New Zealand universities.
		January 17 Mawson found himself dangling in a crevasse at the end of his 14-foot harness.
	www.cap.nsw.edu.au /bb_site_intro/stage2_Modules/TimeTravel/Sir_Douglas_Mawson.html (869 words)

	Mir to Mawson - TV & Radio - Entertainment - theage.com.au
		EXHAUSTED, alone, and almost at breaking point, as explorer Douglas Mawson inched his way along the Antarctic ice, you can be sure the last thing on his mind was space travel.
		Mawson understood this when he hand-picked his expedition team from 1000 applicants.
		Douglas Mawson's 1911 Antarctic expedition (dramatised for the documentary), has helped astronauts prepare for space travel.
	www.theage.com.au /news/tv--radio/mir-to-mawson/2006/10/03/1159641329498.html (796 words)

	Antarctic Explorers: Douglas Mawson
		Mawson wanted to stay longer but since this was never intended to be anything other than a summer expedition, Captain Davis insisted they head north rather than run the risk of running short of coal and becoming stuck in the ice.
		Douglas Mawson was born in Yorkshire and came to Australia as a boy.
		Mawson retired from the university in 1952 and died in 1958, the last leader from the heroic era.
	www.south-pole.com /p0000099.htm (4888 words)

	Sir Douglas Mawson: Travel Antarctica Expedition Explore Cruise
		Douglas Mawson was born in Yorkshire, England in 1882; his parents Robert and Margaret Mawson emigrated to Australia two years later.
		Mawson was spellbound by the amazing contrasts of fire and ice emanating from the volcano’s crater.
		Before long Mawson was making plans and on December 2 1911 he left Hobart, Tasmania on board the M.Y. Aurora with a party of thirty men bound once again for the vast frozen wasteland that is Antarctica.
	travel-antarctica.com /mawson.html (479 words)

	Hero - Sir Douglas Mawson, Antartic explorer
		Sir Douglas Mawson was born in England in 1882 and moved with his family to Australia at the age of just two years.
		After nearly dying himself and the rest of his small expedition passing away Mawson managed to survive what has been termed one of the great Antarctic expeditions and made two more trips to the bleak continent, which resulted in the claiming of almost half of the known mass of Antarctica as Australian Territory.
		Sir Douglas Mawson passed away in 1958 at the age of 76.
	www.upfromaustralia.com /hersirdougma.html (211 words)

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