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Sir Douglas Mawson OBE FRS FAA was an 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. The Mawson Station in the Australian Antarctic Territory is named in his honour. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. May 1882 – 14. October 1958
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Douglas Mawson Quotes

“If we ignore the facts contained in one part of the world, surely we are hampering scientific advance.”

Douglas Mawson

The Home of the Blizzard (1915)

“We had found an accursed country. On the fringe of an unspanned continent along whose gelid coast our comrades had made their home—we knew not where—we dwelt where the chill breath of a vast, Polar wilderness, quickening to the rushing might of eternal blizzards, surged to the northern seas.”

Douglas Mawson

The Home of the Blizzard (1915)

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