Mawson Station looking toward the David Range

Mawson Station is one of three permanent Australian bases in the Australian Antarctic Territory of East Antarctica.

Mawson Research Station is a base for scientific research programs including an underground cosmic ray detector, various long-term meteorological, aeronomy and geomagnetic studies, as well as ongoing conservation biology studies, in particular of nearby Auster rookery, a breeding ground for Emperor Penguins and Adélie Penguins.

Mawson Station houses approximately 20 personnel over winter and up to 60 in summer.

Mawson Station is located at Holme Bay in Mac Robertson Land, East Antarctica, named in January 1930 by Sir Douglas Mawson during the first British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition ( BANZARE ) voyage, aboard Discovery.

Some notable geographic features in the region include the Framnes Mountains, which form the dramatic backdrop to Mawson Station.

Further away, to the northwest, lie the Napier Mountains, which were first visited by an ANARE survey party from Mawson Station in 1960.

The highest peak of this small range is Mount Elkins, which was named after Terence James Elkins, ionospheric physicist with ANARE at Mawson Station in 1960.

Mawson Station experiences a Polar climate:

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Nelson Rock was named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia ( ANCA ) for Robert Nelson, weather observer at Mawson Station in 1962, who assisted with the triangulation of Nelson Rock and the erection of a beacon.

The Williams Rocks were named by the ANCA for J. Williams, assistant diesel mechanic at Mawson Station in 1962, who assisted in a triangulation of the Williams Rocks and the erection of a beacon.

The Flat Islands or Flatøyholmane are a small chain of islands which extends in a northeast-southwest direction, lying about north-west of Mawson Station and southwest of Welch Island in the eastern part of Holme Bay.

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Hurley asserts in his biography that he then cornered Mawson as he was making his way to their interview on a train, using the advantage to talk his way into the job.

In the summer of 1912 – 13, Mertz and 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 Victoria Land.

After Ninnis and a sledge carrying most of the food disappeared down a crevasse from the hut, Mertz and Mawson headed back west, gradually using the dogs to supplement their remaining food stocks.

In his application letter, Mertz wrote that he hoped Mawson would be using skis, as " they have proved so good for the purpose & knowing that I am as good as any one on skys.

The expedition's other main accomplishments included the first ascent of Mount Erebus, and the discovery of the approximate location of the South Magnetic Pole, reached on 16 January 1909 by Edgeworth David, Douglas Mawson, and Alistair Mackay.

Mawson had determined to take a Vicker's REP monoplane to undertake survey work and Bickerton was appointed as mechanical engineer with responsibility for the maintenance of this, the first powered aircraft in Antarctica.

For his services to Antarctic exploration, including his work on the continent's first propeller-driven sledge, his important contribution to establishing the first wireless link with Antarctica and his discovery of the first Antarctic meteorite, Bickerton was awarded the King's Polar Medal in silver and Mawson chose to name Cape Bickerton ( 6620S, 13656E, five miles ( 8 km ) ENE of Gravenoire Rock ) in his honour.

The first glacier the Far Eastern Party crossed on the outward journey — previously unnamed — was named by Mawson after Mertz, becoming the Mertz Glacier.

Mawson Lakes is a suburb and new residential development in the City of Salisbury, Adelaide, with the first land being released in 1998.

Martin Glacier was resurveyed in 1948-1949 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey ( FIDS ) and named for James H. Martin, member of the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition ( BANZARE ) ( 1929-1931 ) under Sir Douglas Mawson, and first mate of the Penola during the British Graham Land Expedition ( BGLE ), 1934-1937.

Because Drygalski Island was thought to be " Drygalski's High Land ", charted by Professor Erich von Drygalski of the German Antarctic Expedition ( 1901-1903 ) in 1902, Drygalski's name was given by Sir Douglas Mawson to the island.

Mawson published " Bolton – a Study in Town Planning and Civic Art " and gave lectures entitled " Bolton Housing and Town Planning Society " which formed the basis of an illustrated book " Bolton – as it is and as it might be ".

With the monoplane too badly damaged for further attempts at flight, Mawson ordered Bickerton to convert it into an " air-tractor " which would then be used for hauling supplies and for exploration during the expedition.

A 1969 study by Sir John Cleland and R. V. Southcott of the University of Adelaide concluded that the symptoms Mawson described — hair, skin and weight loss, depression, dysentery and persistent skin infections — indicated the men had suffered hypervitaminosis A, an excessive intake of vitamin A. Vitamin A is found in unusually high quantities in the livers of Greenland Dogs, of which both Mertz and Mawson consumed large amounts ; indeed, as Mertz's condition deteriorated, Mawson may have given him more of the liver to eat, believing it to be more easily digested.

The voyages primarily comprised an ' acquisitive exploratory expedition ' ( Collis, 2004: 4 ), with Mawson making proclamations of British sovereignty over Antarctic lands at each of their five landfalls — on the understanding that the territory would later be handed to Australia ( as it was in 1933 ).

Evatt indicated his support for a proposal by Douglas Mawson for the establishment of a permanent Australian base in Antarctica.

The episode also details the scientific work in the modern human bases in Antarctica, especially Mawson Base and its observation of Adelie penguins ( partially through tracking devices ).

At the age of 25, in 1908, Hurley learned that Australian explorer Douglas Mawson was planning an expedition to Antarctica ; fellow Sydney-sider Henri Mallard in 1911, recommended Hurley for the position of official photographer to Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition, ahead of himself.

* Price, A. Grenfell ( 1962 ) The Winning of Australian Antarctica: Mawson's BANZARE voyages, 1929 – 31: based on the Mawson Papers, Sydney: Angus & Robertson.

Amundsen, along with Douglas Mawson, Robert Falcon Scott, and Ernest Shackleton, was a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.

Following the fire the government prohibited quick rebuilding, so it could implement the new redesign of the city according to the European-style urban plan prepared by a group of architects, including the Briton Thomas Mawson, and headed by French architect Ernest Hébrard.

Pope lived in his parents ' house in Mawson Row, Chiswick, between 1716 and 1719 ; the red brick building is now the Mawson Arms, commemorating him with a blue plaque.

One notable example of this is the expedition of Sir Douglas Mawson, where his exploration companion died from eating the liver of one of their dogs.

Sir Douglas Mawson, OBE, FRS, FAA ( 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 chose to lead his own expedition, the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, to King George V Land and Adelie Land, the sector of the Antarctic continent immediately south of Australia, which at the time was almost entirely unexplored.

The Heysen Trail and Mawson Trails pass through the park.

There are three ski tows, two on Mount Mawson and one on the Rodway range.

This company existed as Mawson, Swan and Morgan until 1973, formerly located on Grey Street in Newcastle upon Tyne near Grey's Monument.

A mercantile store was built in 1868 by a Mr. Mawson on Wilbarger Creek near the present cemetery and was followed by a second store in 1869.

Salt employed the Bradford firm of Lockwood and Mawson as his architects.

Clifton Cinema was built for Mr J Predergast and Mr Mawson to the designs of Frederick Dyer.

The University of East Anglia opened in October 1963, not on its present campus, but in the " University Village " on the other side of Earlham Road, a collection of prefabricated structures designed for 1200 students, laid out by the local architectural firm Feilden and Mawson.

Established in 1954, Mawson is Australia's oldest Antarctic station and the oldest continuously inhabited Antarctic station south of the Antarctic Circle.