Douglas Mawson

Sir Douglas Mawson was born on the 5 of May, 1882 and died on the 14th of October, 1958.

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On Sir Douglas Mawson's second exploration, leading the first Australasian Antarctic Expedition, he departed on the boat Aurora from Hobart on 2 December 1911. He reached Commonwealth Bay on the Antarctic continent on 7 January 1912. He returned in 1914.

Mawson was buried at St Jude's Anglican Church, Brighton, Adelaide, South Australia.

As a geologist, Sir Douglas Mawson contributed greatly to our scientific knowledge. However, as an explorer he made two major discoveries. He was part of the first ascent of Mount Erebus on Ross Island and discovered the Magnetic South Pole, both as a member of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod expedition. He also led his own expedition to Antarctica, the Australasian Antarctica Expedition, and he mapped a great deal of the coastline of George V Land on this expedition.

Sir Douglas Mawson and Dr Xavier Metz had to when their team mate (Belgrave Ninnis) fell down a crevasse with most of the main supplies, so the two men were made to eat the dogs to stay alive

For his primary years he went to Forest Lodge Public School, Glebe, Sydney and for high school he went to Fort Street

he was an awesome explorer that was a part af the five man party. he was also very smart because at the age of 16 he went to the university of sydney

he ate every thing

Douglas Mawson went to Antarctica four times. On the first occasion, he was part of Ernest Shackleton's British Antarctic Expedition. Together with Australian geologists Professor Edgeworth David and naval surgeon Alistair Mackay, Mawson was the first to reach the magnetic South Pole on 16 January 1909. On his second exploration, leading the first Australasian Antarctic Expedition, Mawson, on the boat Aurora departed from Hobart on 2 December 1911. He reached Commonwealth Bay on the Antarctic continent on 7 January 1912. He returned in 1914. Mawson undertook two more explorations in Antarctica; one in 1929 and the last in 1931, leading the first and second British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expeditions (BANZARE).

aventures and exploring

Because he was knighted and became a sir

The Aurora

No he was not.

Dad is Robert Ellis Mawson and mum is Margaret Ann Moore,

Sir Douglas Mawson assisted the discovery of Antartica. He helped by navigating and mapping the area of the South Pole.

Exploring antartica

Alot of things

Sir Douglas Mawson went to Anarctica to discover and research it as not many people had been there in his time.

His wife's name was Lady Fransisca Adriana Delprat and they married on the 31st of March, 1914.

food, clothes, dogs

In 1914, he married Paquita Delprat the woman he often thought of throughout his Antarctic ordeal.

He took canned food, rope, dogs, sledge

he was near Sydney and moved to Adelaide after he graduated from uni

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