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    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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    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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    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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    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 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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    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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    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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    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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