In 1954 the ANARE headed by Phillip Law on the ship Nela Dan
Mawson is owned by Australia.
The coldest weather in mawson that has been recored is -34.c
Australia's Mawson Base is located on "Mac Robertson Coast" at approximately 67 degrees S latitude and 64 degrees W longitude.
The only 'animals' that live on the Mawson base in Antarctica are humans: the temporary workers and scientists studying the health of planet earth.
he wanted to put a base on antarctica he was british
The telephone country code for Australian research bases in Antarctica is +672. Numbers in the Mawson base begin with +672 117, with a further three digits.
From Wikipedia: "Established in 1954, Mawson is Australia's oldest Antarctic station and the oldest continuously inhabited Antarctic station south of the Antarctic Circle."
68o 25' S, 50o 20' E
For his 1912 expedition, Mawson's team erected a hut on Commonwealth Bay. The coordinates of the general area are 66 58S, 142 38 W.
It has been there since 1953, so about 56 years
According to the Australian Antarctic Division of the Australian government, Mawson Base is located 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." This means that the area of the base is limited to the size of the outcrop, since venturing beyond its boundaries endangers life.
The Mawson Huts are a group of 4 huts built as a base camp for the Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911 to 1914. The largest number of people they held was 18, during the winter of 1912.