25 – Mawson: Antarctic Exploration Pt 5
Douglas Mawson’s Australasian Antarctic Expedition concluded, and the last of the expeditioners arrived back in Adelaide in February, 1914. A lot had happened, both on...
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24-Mawson: Antarctic Exploration Pt 4
Douglas Mawson’s expedition was well underway, and the teams from the Cape Denison base had returned after completing their various research programs. All except Mawson...
23 – Mawson: Antarctic Exploration Pt 3
After returning from Shackleton’s Nimrod Expedition and rejecting any idea of returning to Antarctica, the trauma of his polar trekking faded and Douglas Mawson began...
22 – Mawson: Antarctic Exploration Pt 2
Douglas Mawson, who would later become the leader of Australia’s first Antarctic expedition, undertook his first trip to Antarctica as part of Ernest Shackleton’s “Nimrod...
21 – Mawson: Antarctic Exploration Pt 1
Australia’s first formal expedition to Antarctica in 1911, the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was led by Douglas Mawson, a geologist from Adelaide University. This episode we’ll...