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Sir Douglas Mawson
Bickerton, Correll, Hannam,
Mawson
Thermiting a broken vice in the workshop
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Dr. Douglas Mawson (30) -
Aurora 1911-1913
Expedition leader
physicist,
acting subsequently as master
Nimrod 1907-09
Born on a farm at Shipley,
Yorkshire, England
in 1882, his mother was originally from the Isle of Man. Educated
in Australia.
Organiser and Leader of the Australasian Antarctic
Expedition previously a member of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic
Expedition of 1907-1909, being one of the party under Professor David
which reached the South Magnetic Pole. A graduate in Science and Engineering
of Sydney and Adelaide Universities, he had filled for some time the
post of Lecturer in Mineralogy and Petrology at the Adelaide University.
The only survivor of a party sledging to the east from the Main Base
in the summer of 1912-1913.
From Appendix 1, Mawson - Heart of the Antarctic
Landmarks named after
Douglas Mawson
Feature Name:
Mawson Bank
Feature Type: bar
Latitude: 7330S
Longitude: 17400E
Description: A bank named for Sir Douglas Mawson.
Feature Name:
Cape Mawson
Feature Type: cape
Latitude: 6959S
Longitude: 07440W
Description: Low, ice-covered cape forming the SE extremity of
Charcot Island. First seen from the air and roughly charted by Sir Hubert
Wilkins on Dec. 29, 1929, in a flight made around the island. Remapped
from air photos taken by USN OpHjp in 1947 by Searle of the FIDS in
1960.
Feature Name:
Mawson Peninsula
Feature Type: cape
Elevation: 455
Latitude: 6835S
Longitude: 15411E
Description: A high (455 m), narrow, ice-covered peninsula
on the W side of Slava Ice Shelf. It extends over 30 mi in a northwesterly
direction, terminating in Cape Hudson. Photographed from the air by
USN Operation Highjump, 1946-47. Phillip Law of ANARE flew along the
peninsula to its northern end in Feb. 1959 and sketched and photographed
it.
Feature Name:
Mawson Peak
Feature Type: summit
Elevation: 2745
Latitude: 5306S
Longitude: 07331E
Description: A peak, 2,745 m, formed by an active volcanic
cone at the summit of Big Ben, the mountain dominating the main mass
of Heard Island. Surveyed in 1948 by the ANARE.
Feature Name:
Mawson Glacier
Feature Type: glacier
Latitude: 7613S
Longitude: 16205E
Description: A large glacier on the E coast of Victoria
Land, descending eastward from the polar plateau, to the N of Trinity
Nunatak and the Kirkwood Range, to enter Ross Sea, where it forms the
Nordenskjżld Ice Tongue. First mapped by the BrAE (1907-09).
Feature Name:
Mawson Escarpment
Feature Type: cliff
Latitude: 7305S
Longitude: 06810E
Description: A flat-topped, west-facing escarpment which
extends in a N-S direction for 70 mi along the E side of Lambert Glacier.
Discovered by Flying Officer J. Seaton, RAAF, of ANARE while on a reconnaissance
flight in November, 1956.
Feature Name:
Mawson Corridor
Feature Type: gap
Latitude: 6700S
Longitude: 06300E
Description: A sea passage between grounded icebergs on
the approach to Mawson Station at Holme Bay. It is about 22 mi long
and 4 to 5 mi wide, opening out at the southern end to give the feature
a funnel shape. The northern end at 6645S, 6320E, is sharply defined
and coincides with the edge of the continental shelf; from there it
bears 202. Discovered by ANARE in 1954, and used regularly by ANARE
relief ships in their approach to Mawson Station.
Feature Name:
Mawson Coast
Feature Type: beach
Latitude: 6740S
Longitude: 06330E
Description: That portion of the coast of Mac. Robertson
Land lying between William Scoresby Bay, in 5934E, and Murray Monolith,
in 6654E. The coast was sighted during the BANZARE, 1929-30, under Sir
Douglas Mawson. Further exploration and landings at Cape Bruce and Scullin
Monolith were made during BANZARE, 1930-31.
p.s. Douglas Mawson might have been a splendid fellow
and absolutely first rate, but I bet he regretted having that picture
taken of him in the balaclava - I mean it's the sort you'd send to your
aunt Ethel to prove you really are wearing what she knitted for you.
