Sir Douglas Mawson (1882-1958) was an Australian scientist and explorer of the Antarctic. His intellectual boldness and skill were matched by a practical initiative and courage which confirms his place among the world's greatest explorers. Douglas...

1882-1958 Australian researcher and Antarctic explorer who was one of the first to observe the changing location of the magnetic pole, and surveyed unknown areas to the west of the South Pole. Mawson led expeditions to Antarctica and was a member of...

Sir Douglas Mawson OBE FRS (5 May 1882 – 14 October 1958) was an Australian Antarctic explorer and geologist. With Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Ernest Shackleton, Mawson was a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic...

Byline: Sarah Chalmers DANGLING on the end of a rope over a gaping crevasse, emaciated,exhausted and thoroughly despondent, polar explorer Douglas Mawson prayed fordeath. The Yorkshire-born adventurer's terrifying plunge came during an arduous SouthPole expedition in 1912 which had already been...

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The lights are barely visible from the outside, as a 150km/h blizzard batters the Sorensen Hut, an Antarctic summer base at Cape Denison. But the five expeditioners cooped up inside aren't even aware of the howling winds roaring off the...