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Highly unlikely. The SY Aurora was built in 1876 in Glasgow, Scotland as a whaling ship in the northern seas.

Douglas Mawson only acquired the ship in 1910 and she had already been named. If it was named after a "polar light" it would have been the Aurora Borealis.

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