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Antarctica and Sir Douglas Mawson - Australia's Culture Portal

Mawson ice edge, &copy Australian Antarctic Division, 2006, Kingston Tasmania 7050. Sir Douglas Mawson (1882-1958) was an Australian who led a series of expeditions to Antarctica. The Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE) 1911-14 was an important scie...

Online exhibitions - Australia's Culture Portal

It's one of a series of images held in the Mortlock Library of South Australiana (PRG 689/1). Image used with permission, State Library of South Australia. The image above is from an online exhibition 'Women and Politics in South Australia' curated by the...

Australia's fossil past - Australia's Culture Portal

This includes Pleistocene era Aboriginal body fossils, many of which were removed and sent overseas. The Riversleigh fossil site, near Mount Isa Queensland, is recognised as one of the most important fossil sites in the world. The Riversleigh and Narrac...

Frank Hurley - Australia's Culture Portal

James Francis (Frank) Hurley (1885-1962) is regarded as an extraordinary Australian photographer, adventurer, filmmaker and writer. Image courtesy National Library of Australia: nla.pic-an23478581. In 1911, Australian explorer Douglas Mawson hired Hurley...

National Science Week - Australia's Culture Portal

National Science Week is Australia's major annual science extravaganza. National Science Week is a partnership between the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), ASF Limited, the Australian Science Teachers Association, and the Department of Innovati...

Science in Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

Sir William Bragg - Nobel Prize for physics, 1915. Bragg shared the prize with his son (also Sir William Bragg). Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet - Nobel Prize for medicine, 1960. ...

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In the footsteps of Douglas Mawson   (more info)

Douglas Mawson was a scientist, an explorer and an adventurer. As an explorer and adventurer his contribution to the understanding of the Antarctic continent is well known. This web site seeks to show Mawson's life - his adventures, his success in taking

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In the footsteps of Sir Douglas Mawson - Site Credits   (website In the footsteps of Douglas Mawson )

to all images is held by The Commonwealth of Australia, the South Australian Museum, The Department of Primary Industries and Resources or the photographers. Images are not to be reproduced without permission....

Sir Douglas Mawson - About the site   (website In the footsteps of Douglas Mawson )

are many ways to explore this site. The British Empire, the British Commonwealth and Australian Federation. Antarctica, and what he discovered. ...

Sir Douglas Mawson - About the site   (website In the footsteps of Douglas Mawson )

Mawson was a scientist, an explorer and an adventurer. legacy of Sir Douglas Mawson is two fold. inspirational quality of his life. ...

Sir Douglas Mawson - About the site   (website In the footsteps of Douglas Mawson )

Here you can click on one of three notebooks. an abbreviated life history of Sir Douglas. the Flinders Ranges) and Antarctica....

In the Footsteps of Douglas Mawson   (website In the footsteps of Douglas Mawson )

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In the Footsteps of Sir Douglas Mawson - Sitemap   (website In the footsteps of Douglas Mawson )

British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) Scientific program at sea...

Sir Douglas Mawson - About the site   (website In the footsteps of Douglas Mawson )

Mawson was a scientist, an explorer and an adventurer. legacy of Sir Douglas Mawson is two fold. inspirational quality of his life. ...

NMA Collections Search - Proclamation of British sovereignty over King George V Land (Antarctica), signed by Sir Douglas Mawson, 1931   (website National Museum of Australia (NMA) )

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NMA Collections Search - Proclamation of British sovereignty over King George V Land (Antarctica), signed by Sir Douglas Mawson, 1931   (website National Museum of Australia (NMA) )

Description>Proclamation written on rag paper in copperplate by A L Kennedy, a physicist in Mawson's party, and signed by Sir Douglas Mawson. It declares that "The full sovereignty of the Territory of King George V Land and it's extension... Proclamation...

Ergo online learning project, State Library of Victoria   (website State Library of Victoria (SLV) )

A man with a genuine commitment to his science, Sir Douglas Mawson's name is synonymous with Antarctic exploration. Sir Douglas Mawson was an English geologist and the pioneer of Australian Antarctic exploration. >> In 1907, Sir Ernest Shackleton invited...

H8144 Sledge, full size, timber, used on the Australasian Antarctic Expedition led by Sir Douglas Mawson, 1911-1914, made by L. Hagen & Co., Kirkegaden 19, Christiania, Norway, 1911 - Powerhouse Museum Collection   (website Powerhouse Museum )

> > This sledge is one of twenty Norwegian sledges ordered by Mawson in mid-1911 while in England organising the supply equipment for the expedition. In all the Norwegian order comprised nine 12 foot (3.66 m) sledges, nine 11 foot (3.35 m) sledges and tw...

Sir Douglas Mawson   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

Sir Douglas Mawson is Australia's most famous Antarctic explorer. Mawson selected his team and in the ship 'Aurora' they sailed through one thousand, five hundred kilometres of pack ice to the Antarctic coast. Film maker, David Parer, re-created their jou...

Powerhouse Museum Collection   (website Powerhouse Museum )

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