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Antarctica and Sir Douglas Mawson - Australia's Culture PortalMawson ice edge, © Australian Antarctic Division, 2006, Kingston Tasmania 7050. Sir Douglas Mawson (1882-1958) was an Australian who led a series of expeditions to Antarctica. The Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE) 1911-14 was an important scie...
It's one of a series of images held in the Mortlock Library of South Australiana (PRG 689/1). Image used with permission, State Library of South Australia. The image above is from an online exhibition 'Women and Politics in South Australia' curated by the...
This includes Pleistocene era Aboriginal body fossils, many of which were removed and sent overseas. The Riversleigh fossil site, near Mount Isa Queensland, is recognised as one of the most important fossil sites in the world. The Riversleigh and Narrac...
James Francis (Frank) Hurley (1885-1962) is regarded as an extraordinary Australian photographer, adventurer, filmmaker and writer. Image courtesy National Library of Australia: nla.pic-an23478581. In 1911, Australian explorer Douglas Mawson hired Hurley...
Australia's maritime history is closely related to the global story of people crossing oceans. N B Stuckey, Thursday Island, Torres Strait Islands, 1945, Members of Torres Strait Island Light Infantry returning from fishing trip in outrigger sailing cano...
National Science Week is Australia's major annual science extravaganza. National Science Week is a partnership between the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), ASF Limited, the Australian Science Teachers Association, and the Department of Innovati...
Sir William Bragg - Nobel Prize for physics, 1915. Bragg shared the prize with his son (also Sir William Bragg). Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet - Nobel Prize for medicine, 1960. ...
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In the footsteps of Douglas Mawson (more info)
Douglas Mawson was a scientist, an explorer and an adventurer. As an explorer and adventurer his contribution to the understanding of the Antarctic continent is well known. This web site seeks to show Mawson's life - his adventures, his success in taking
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Journal Article - 'Full of Honour and Gain to Science': Munitions Production, Technical Intelligence and the Wartime Career of Sir Douglas Mawson, FRS - Encyclopedia of Australian Science (website Bright Sparcs )The Encyclopedia of Australian Science brings together Bright Sparcs and Australian Science at Work. See the background page for more information. This site is still under construction and will be changing and improving in the coming months....
Papers of Sir Douglas Mawson and those of his wife, consisting of correspondence, lecture notes, manuscripts, newspaper cuttings and photographs. The Encyclopedia of Australian Science brings together Bright Sparcs and Australian Science at Work. This s...
The Encyclopedia of Australian Science brings together Bright Sparcs and Australian Science at Work. See the background page for more information. This site is still under construction and will be changing and improving in the coming months....
Manuscript and typescript notes for 'Knee moulded pots from the New Hebrides' which was published in "Records of the South Australian Museum" Volume 13 [1 volume, NA 11]. Mawson was making geological investigations in the New Hebrides in 1903. The Encyclo...
The Encyclopedia of Australian Science brings together Bright Sparcs and Australian Science at Work. See the background page for more information. This site is still under construction and will be changing and improving in the coming months....
The Encyclopedia of Australian Science brings together Bright Sparcs and Australian Science at Work. See the background page for more information. This site is still under construction and will be changing and improving in the coming months....
'Mawson, Douglas - Ms 30', in Listing of Adolph Basser Library holdings, Australian Academy of Science, 1994, http://www.science.org.au/basser/manuscript-collection/ms030.htm. The Encyclopedia of Australian Science brings together Bright Sparcs and Austr...
The Encyclopedia of Australian Science brings together Bright Sparcs and Australian Science at Work. See the background page for more information. This site is still under construction and will be changing and improving in the coming months....
The Encyclopedia of Australian Science brings together Bright Sparcs and Australian Science at Work. See the background page for more information. This site is still under construction and will be changing and improving in the coming months....
The Encyclopedia of Australian Science brings together Bright Sparcs and Australian Science at Work. See the background page for more information. This site is still under construction and will be changing and improving in the coming months....
Proclamation written on rag paper in copperplate by A.L. Kennedy and signed by Mawson declaring that 'the full sovereignty of the Territory of King George V Land and its extension ... vests in His Majesty King George the Fifth, his heirs and successors f...
Notes, field notes, extracts, draft and typescript papers, reprints and correspondence 1897-1956 of and collected by Mawson relating to research on the sub-division of the Adelaide (Cambrian) system, on glaciation and sturtian tillites, on rock formations...
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