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...
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Douglas Mawson (1882–1958) was an Australian geologist and Antarctic explorer. Mawson may also refer to: Mawson (surname) Mawson Station, Antarctic base named...
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Mawson Station, commonly called Mawson, is one of three permanent bases and research outposts in Antarctica managed by the Australian Antarctic Division...
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include: Rothera Station, Palmer Station, Villa Las Estrellas, Esperanza Base, Mawson Station, McMurdo Station, and offshore anchorages in Antarctica. Few...
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Australasian Antarctic Expedition (redirect from Mawson expedition)
mainland. The main base, under Mawson's command, was set up at Cape Denison, about 500 kilometres (300 mi) west of Cape Adare, and a western base under Frank...
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Mount Mawson is a mountain and club skifield situated within the Mount Field National Park in southern Tasmania, Australia. The mountain has an elevation...
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as "Mawson's Hut". This pyramid-roofed hut was home to the eighteen men of the AAE main base party in 1912, and the seven (including Douglas Mawson) who...
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victory. Although it was thought that Brokenshire had established a base in Mawson, it reverted to form at the 2006 election, when Labor candidate and...
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Andrew Mawson, Baron Mawson, OBE (born 8 November 1954) is an English social entrepreneur. Andrew Mawson was brought up in Bradford, Yorkshire. He trained...
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Air-tractor sledge (redirect from Mawson's Air Tractor)
the first plane to be taken to the Antarctic. Expedition leader Douglas Mawson had planned to use the Vickers R.E.P. Type Monoplane as a reconnaissance...
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The Mawson Plateau, located at 30°6′38″S 139°25′19″E / 30.11056°S 139.42194°E / -30.11056; 139.42194 is part of the northern Flinders Ranges, located...
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Mawson at the expedition's main base and the remaining nine were sent with Frank Wild to the western base. All of the original dogs at the main base were...
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west of Cape Adare. Led by Douglas Mawson, the party aimed to explore the area far to the east of their main base in Adélie Land, pushing about 500 miles...
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Ninnis were chosen by Mawson to accompany him on the Far Eastern Party, using the dogs to push rapidly from the expedition's base in Adélie Land towards...
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1955 compiled from aerial photographs. Geography portal Douglas Mawson "Douglas Mawson 1882-1958". Retrieved 2 June 2008. "Kennedy Peak". Geographic Names...
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Time in Antarctica (redirect from Antarctica/Mawson)
some 2 digits for seconds. Palmer (-3) Rothera (-3) Vostok (+5) Syowa (+3) Mawson (+5) Davis (+7) Casey (+8) Dumont-d'Urville (+10) McMurdo (+12) South Pole...
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Francis Rattenbury (redirect from Francis Mawson Rattenbury)
Francis Mawson Rattenbury (11 October 1867 – 28 March 1935) was a British architect although most of his career was spent in British Columbia, Canada,...
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Royal Fusiliers and an Antarctic explorer who was a member of Douglas Mawson's 1911 Australasian Antarctic Expedition. Ninnis was the son of British arctic...
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Salton Sea (redirect from Salton Sea Test Base)
originally functioned as an operational and training base for seaplanes. Additional activities at the base included experimental testing of solid-fuel plane-launched...
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Base General Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme, also Base Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme, or shortly Bernardo O'Higgins, named after Bernardo...
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Party base, under Mawson, was established at Cape Denison in Commonwealth Bay, at 67°0'S, 142°40'E. A Far Western party, under Frank Wild, was based on the...
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The Petrel Base (Spanish: Base Petrel) is a non-permanent Argentine scientific station located on Dundee Island, in the Joinville Group, in Graham Land...
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with Mawson, his kill rate went down and that he truly loved her. Of his 49 known victims, only three were killed after he married Mawson. Mawson told...
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Base Orcadas is an Argentine scientific station in Antarctica, and the oldest of the stations in Antarctica still in operation. It is located on Laurie...
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in November 1912 by the Western Base party of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition under Sir Douglas Mawson. Mawson named the glacier for Lord Denman...
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Mawson's dragonfish (Cygnodraco mawsoni) is a species of Antarctic dragonfish native to the Southern Ocean around Antarctica. It is found at depths of...
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Research stations in Antarctica (redirect from Antarctic research base)
continent. Signy Research Station (UK) was established in 1947, Australia's Mawson Station in 1954, Dumont d'Urville Station was the first French station in...
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continued south to a small plywood caravan left at Binders Base at 72°36' South by the 1960 Mawson party, in order to re-provision and sledge on to the Fisher...
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Skiing in Tasmania (section Mount Mawson)
two small downhill ski-fields have been developed at Ben Lomond and Mount Mawson. Mount Ossa is the highest point on the island at 1,617 metres (5,305 ft)...
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Station, 1962; Carpenter, Mawson Station, 1966; Senior Carpenter, Mawson Station, 1971. Maxwell John CORRY Surveyor, Mawson Station, 1965; Officer-in-Charge...
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