✳ team focused on reaching South Pole first, but Mawson wanted to advance science
✳ they coped with hunger, hidden crevasses, frostbite and exhaustion
✳ when they arrived back in Adelaide, they were given a well earned hero's welcome back
Thursday 4 April 2013
Shackleton's Expedition
✳ joined Ernest Shackleton's expedition at the age of 26 in 1907
✳ team focused on reaching South Pole first, but Mawson wanted to advance science
✳ the team was first of man-kind to climb to the top of Mt Erebus, one of Antarctica's volcanos
✳ Mawson and his mentor, Professor Edgeworth David completed the longest man-hauling sledge journey (122 days)
✳ they coped with hunger, hidden crevasses, frostbite and exhaustion
✳ when they arrived back in Adelaide, they were given a well earned hero's welcome back
✳ team focused on reaching South Pole first, but Mawson wanted to advance science
✳ they coped with hunger, hidden crevasses, frostbite and exhaustion
✳ when they arrived back in Adelaide, they were given a well earned hero's welcome back
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