Douglas Mawson

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.

Early life

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 emigrated 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.

Early work

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.

Mawson (state)

Mawson (also known as Bawzaing) was a Shan state in the Myelat region of what is today Burma. Its capital was Myogyi. Its population consisted of Danu, Pa-O, and Taungyo.

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Mawson (disambiguation)

Douglas Mawson (1882–1958) was an Australian geologist and Antarctic explorer.

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