Mawson
| Sir Douglas Mawson | |
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Portrait of Douglas Mawson in 1926
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| Born |
5 May 1882 Shipley, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom |
| Died | 14 October 1958 (aged 76) Brighton, South Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Education | Fort Street Model School and University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales |
| Occupation | Geologist, chemistry demonstrator, Antarctic explorer, academic |
| Known for | First ascent of Mount Erebus First team to reach the South Magnetic Pole Sole survivor of Far Eastern Party Australasian Antarctic Expedition Mawson's Huts Mawson Plateau |
| Spouse(s) | Francisca Paquita Delprat (married 1914) |
| Children | Patricia (born 1915) Jessica (born 1917) |
| Awards |
Fellow of the Royal Society Bigsby Medal (1919) Clarke Medal (1936) |
Sir Douglas Mawson OBE FRSFAA (5 May 1882 – 14 October 1958) was an Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer and academic. Along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Ernest Shackleton, Mawson was a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
Mawson was born on 5 May 1882 to Robert Ellis Mawson and Margaret Ann Moore. He was born in Shipley, West Yorkshire, but was only two years old when his family immigrated to Australia and settled at Rooty Hill, now in the western suburbs of Sydney. He attended Fort Street Model School and the University of Sydney, where he graduated in 1902 with a Bachelor of Engineering degree.
He was appointed geologist to an expedition to the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu) in 1903; his report, The Geology of the New Hebrides, was one of the first major geological works of Melanesia. Also that year he published a geological paper on Mittagong, New South Wales. His major influences in his geological career were Professor Edgeworth David and Professor Archibald Liversidge. He then became a lecturer in petrology and mineralogy at the University of Adelaide in 1905. He identified and first described the mineral davidite.
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