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Jan 27, 2012 · Photo: Wikicommons. The explorers took three sledges, pulled by a total of 16 huskies and loaded with a combined 1,720 pounds of food, survival gear and scientific instruments. Mawson limited...
Sir Douglas Mawson OBE FRS FAA (5 May 1882 – 14 October 1958) was a British-born Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer, and academic. Along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Sir Ernest Shackleton, he was a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
After burying his friend, Mawson cut his sledge in half and discarded everything that was not essential for survival. On this last 160 km trek, Mawson faced his own life or death ordeal, but struggled against the odds to survive the slow journey back to Main Base.
May 11, 2023 · Mawson cut his sledge in half and loaded it with the barest minimum of equipment. Everything else he abandoned except the geological specimens he’d collected along with his journal and that of Mertz, having removed the latter’s covers and unused pages.
Jan 12, 2018 · Douglas Mawson’s Frozen Flight. Modified to serve as an “air tractor sledge,” the Vickers monoplane—minus wings—is tested while held stationary via a barrel roped to one ski. (Image Library, State library of New South Wales/photographer John G. Hunter)) Douglas Mawson and his ‘Wingless Wonder’ headed for the Antarctic in 1911.
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Mawson buried his friend, still in the sleeping bag, beneath a mound of snow blocks atop which he fixed a rude cross made of discarded sledge runners. Many years later, some researchers speculated ...
Mar 24, 2009 · Mertz, Ninnis, and Mawson erecting the tent in a high wind A later stage in erection of the tent in a wind (one man is inside) Dr. Xavier Mertz Pages from Dr. Mertz' diary Mawson emerging from his makeshift tent The half-sledge used in the last stage of Mawson's journey
