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Douglas Mawson - My Favourite Books
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Douglas Mawson
1882-1958
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Australian antarctic explorer and geologist, b. England. His first geographical expedition was to the New Hebrides Islands as a geologist in 1903. As a member of the scientific staff of Sir Ernest Shackleton's south polar expedition (1907–09), Mawson took part in the famous ascent of Mt. Erebus and the journey to the south magnetic pole. From 1911 to 1914 he commanded the Australian antarctic expedition; he studied the antarctic coast W of Cape Adare, spent two winters in Adélie Land (now Adélie Coast), and discovered King George V Land (now George V Coast), while a subordinate party discovered and explored Queen Mary Land (now Queen Mary Coast). On this trip Mawson's two companions died, and he was barely able to save himself. His Home of the Blizzard (1915) describes these explorations. In 1920 he became professor of geology and mineralogy at the Univ. of Adelaide. As commander of the British, Australian, and New Zealand antarctic expedition (1929–30), he revisited Enderby Land, not seen since its reported discovery a century earlier, and discovered MacRobertson Coast. Using a seaplane in conjunction with his ship, he made many short flights; in the course of this expedition, Mawson charted over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) of previously unknown antarctic coast and recharted c.1,500 mi (2,400 km) of vaguely known coasts. In his three trips between 1907 and 1931, Mawson claimed 2,225,000 sq mi (5,762,750 sq km) of antarctic territory for Australia. In recognition of his accomplishments he received the King's Polar Medal. He wrote many scientific papers. |
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Eisiger Sturm
Mawsons abenteuerliche Antarktisexpedition
by Charles F. Laseron
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Als Sir Douglas Mawson nach einer Schlittenexpedition zum Südpol unter äußersten Anstrengungen das Basislager erreicht, hat er nicht nur seine beiden Begleiter verloren, sondern auch die Abfahrt des Expeditionsschiffes knapp verpasst. Zusammen mit der nach ihm ausgeschickten Suchmannschaft muß er ein weiteres Jahr in den eisigen Stürmen der Antarktis ausharren.
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Mawson's Will
The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written
by Lennard Bickel, Edmund Hillary
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Australian Sir Douglas Mawson chose not to go with Robert Scott to the South Pole in 1911, but instead set out on a less prestigious expedition to chart Antarctica's coastline. Mawson was not inexperienced - in 1908 he had led an important expedition to the South Magnetic Pole - but nothing could have prepared him for what happened on this trek. Mawson's task was to chart 1,500 miles of coastline and claim it for the British crown. Setting out in a party of three, he faced mountains, crevasse-filled glaciers, and 60-mile-per-hour winds. Six weeks and 320 miles out, one man fell into a crevasse, along with the tent, most equipment, and all but a week's supply of food. After losing his other companion and the dogs, Mawson fought his way back home alone through horrific wind, snow, and cold to leave his own mark in history.
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This Everlasting Silence
The Love Letters of Paquita Delprat and Mawson
by Nancy Robinson Flannery
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The Loveletters between Douglas Mawson and his girl friend Paquita Delprat in the time from 1911-1914.
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The Home of the Blizzard
A True Story of Antarctic Survival
by Douglas Mawson
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Rejecting a position on Scott's ill-fated South Pole team, Australian explorer Douglas Mawson sets off with his own plans in December 1911 to explore the unknown Antarctic coast south of Australia. The Home of the Blizzard is Mawson's thrilling account of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, which set its base camp in a region of terrific yearlong windstorms and blizzards. Originally published as a two-volume work in 1915, then abridged and reprinted in 1930, this edition replicates the bestselling 1930 volume, which has long been out of print.
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Mawson
A Life
by Philip Ayres
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' . . . by unearthing a massive amount of new material, using thousands of previously unpublished personal letters and expeditioners' diary notes, Ayres manages to chip away the ice to reveal the man inside that well-known image of a knight in woollen armour.' (Paul Heinrichs)
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