There is no record of Douglas Mawson's middle name.
Though Mawsons mother's name was Margaret Ann Moore and his father's name was Robert Ellis Mawson.
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Douglas Mawson went on four expeditions to Antarctica.
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).
he was near Sydney and moved to Adelaide after he graduated from uni
he ate his own body and he ate the dogs and canned food ?
Geology. Sir Douglas Mawson [May 5, 1882-October 14, 1958] was an Australian who was trained as a geologist, and who explored Antarctica.
Because she did many things women had never done before. Flying alone across a vast ocean is scary even these days - back then it would have terrified most pilots.
Mawson Peak is the highest mountain in any Australian territory. It lies on Heard Island, one of Australia's territories, in the Southern Ocean, but not specifically in Antarctica.
He went to the University of Sydney in 1899-1901, where he studied mining engineering and graduated B.E. in 1902
His wife's name was Lady Fransisca Adriana Delprat and they married on the 31st of March, 1914.
His first expedition to Antarctica was with Ernest Shackletons Nimrod Expedition of 1907.
Mawson's mother was Margeret Ann Moore
Maswon's father was Robert Ellis Mawson
Mawson's wife was Francisca Paquita Delprat
All earlier Australian decimal banknotes remain legal tender in Australia even though they are no longer in circulation.
You may have problems getting a shopkeeper of tradesman to accept an old banknote though.
The Reserve Bank of Australia advises that old Australian banknotes can be presented at the Reserve Bank of Australia and most banks and exchanged for an equivalent value current Australian banknote.
Sir Douglas Mawson was knighted by King Edward VII of England in 1914.
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Because he was knighted and became a sir