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| sir douglas mawson family tree: Mawson's Huts David Jensen, Mawson's Huts Foundation, 2014-12-01 The Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE) of 1911-14, led by the young Australian geologist Dr Douglas Mawson, who was later knighted for his efforts, was not only one of the last great voyages of the Heroic Era, it was by far the most successful of its time in scientific terms. The results of the AAE's investigations were still being published 30 years later. Mawson's team of 31 expeditioners, with an average age of just 26, established three bases. The main one was built at Cape Denison, Commonwealth Bay, where in January and February 1912 they built the wooden hut from Oregon and Baltic pine that was to be their home for two years. It was from here that the disaster and heroism of Mawson's far eastern sledging party continues to frame the popular perception of his legendary polar explorations. After the death of his two sledging companions, Dr Xavier Mertz and Lieutenant Belgrave Ninnis, Mawson walked for a month, starving and alone, back to Cape Denison, only to see his ship departing in the distance. The fragile wooden hut where he had to spend a further year with six companions is now a historic site, and is being conserved by the Mawson's Huts Foundation in partnership with the Australian Antarctic Division. Formed in 1996, the Foundation is raising funds from the Australian Government and corporate and private sponsors to ensure that this vital part of Australia's Antarctic heritage remains intact. The Mawson's Huts Historic Site consists of the main hut, magnetograph house, the transit hut, the ruined absolute magnetic hut and a memorial cross to Ninnis and Mertz, along with a plaque recording the territorial claim Mawson made on his return for one night in 1931. The Cape Denison site is also recognised internationally under the Antarctic Treaty as a Historic Site and Monument, an Antarctic Specially Protected Area and an Antarctic Specially Managed Area. It is also inscribed on both the National Heritage and Commonwealth Heritage registers. |
| sir douglas mawson family tree: Forest Family John C. Ryan, Rod Giblett, 2018-06-12 Forest Family highlights the importance of the old-growth forests of Southwest Australia to art, culture, history, politics, and community identity. The volume weaves together the natural and cultural histories of Southwest eucalypt forests, spanning pre-settlement, colonial, and contemporary periods. The contributors critique a range of content including historical documents, music, novels, paintings, performances, photography, poetry, and sculpture representing ancient Australian forests. Forest Family centers on the relationship between old-growth nature and human culture through the narrative strand of the Giblett family of Western Australia and the forests in which they settled during the nineteenth century. The volume will be of interest to general readers of environmental history, as well as scholars in critical plant studies and the environmental humanities. |
| sir douglas mawson family tree: Symons's Monthly Meteorological Magazine , 1916 |
| sir douglas mawson family tree: Symons's Meteorological Magazine , 1915 |
| sir douglas mawson family tree: Australian National Bibliography , 1996-05 |
| sir douglas mawson family tree: Symons's Meteorological Magazine , 1966 |
| sir douglas mawson family tree: Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia No. 53, 1967 , |
| sir douglas mawson family tree: Popular Science , 1930-11 Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better. |
| sir douglas mawson family tree: Annual Report of the Board of Governors of the Public Library, Museum, and Art Gallery of South Australia Public Library, Museum, and Art Gallery of South Australia, 1913 |
| sir douglas mawson family tree: Popular Science Monthly , 1930 |
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| sir douglas mawson family tree: The Branch Without a Tree Kenneth Peake-Jones, 1985 |
| sir douglas mawson family tree: A Vision of Steel Lady Paquita Delprat Mawson, 1958 |
| sir douglas mawson family tree: Lonely Planet South Australia & Northern Territory Anthony Ham, Charles Rawlings-Way, 2022-05 Lonely Planets South Australia & Northern Territory is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Gaze at Uluru, explore the outback, and spot wildlife on Kangaroo Island; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of SA & NT and begin your journey now! Inside Lonely Planets South Australia & Northern Territory Travel Guide: Up-to-date information - all businesses were rechecked before publication to ensure they are still open after 2020s COVID-19 outbreak NEW top experiences feature - a visually inspiring collection of South Australia & Northern Territory s best experiences and where to have them What's NEW feature taps into cultural trends and helps you find fresh ideas and cool new areas Planning tools for family travellers - where to go, how to save money, plus fun stuff just for kids Colour maps and images throughout Highlights and itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, websites, transit tips, prices Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sightseeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Cultural insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel experience - history, people, music, landscapes, wildlife, cuisine, politics Over 50 maps Covers Adelaide, Fleurieu Peninsula, Kangaroo Island, Barossa Valley, Yorke Peninsula, Eyre Peninsula, Flinders Ranges, Coober Pedy, Darwin, Kakadu, Arnhem Land, Katherine, Uluru, Alice Springs, MacDonnell Ranges The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planets South Australia & Northern Territory, our most comprehensive guide to South Australia & Northern Territory, is perfect for both exploring top sights and taking roads less travelled. Looking for more extensive coverage? Check out Lonely Planets Australia for a comprehensive look at all the country has to offer. About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveller since 1973. Over the past four decades, we've printed over 145 million guidebooks and phrasebooks for 120 languages, and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travellers. You'll also find our content online, and in mobile apps, videos, 14 languages, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more, enabling you to explore every day. 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' New York Times 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' Fairfax Media (Australia) |
| sir douglas mawson family tree: Nature Sir Norman Lockyer, 1919 |
| sir douglas mawson family tree: Quarterly, Science and History of the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History , 1972 |
| sir douglas mawson family tree: Proceedings of the Parliament of South Australia South Australia. Parliament, 1916 |
| sir douglas mawson family tree: The Publisher , 1904 |
| sir douglas mawson family tree: Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Philosophical Society of Adelaide, South Australia Royal Society of South Australia, 1959 |
| sir douglas mawson family tree: The Christian Work , 1915 |
| sir douglas mawson family tree: Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration David Roberts, 2013-01-28 Gripping and superb. This book will steal the night from you. —Laurence Gonzales, author of Deep Survival On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp. The dogs were gone. Now Mawson himself plunged through a snow bridge, dangling over an abyss by the sledge harness. A line of poetry gave him the will to haul himself back to the surface. Mawson was sometimes reduced to crawling, and one night he discovered that the soles of his feet had completely detached from the flesh beneath. On February 8, when he staggered back to base, his features unrecognizably skeletal, the first teammate to reach him blurted out, Which one are you? This thrilling and almost unbelievable account establishes Mawson in his rightful place as one of the greatest polar explorers and expedition leaders. It is illustrated by a trove of Frank Hurley’s famous Antarctic photographs, many never before published in the United States. |
| sir douglas mawson family tree: The Home of the Blizzard Sir Douglas Mawson, 1915 This account, so profusely illustrated by the magnificent photographs of Frank Hurley is a classic of Polar literature, describing the first major scientific exploring venture by an Australian beyond their shores. Mawson's lone survival after the fatal tragedy of his two companions (Ninnis and Mertz) was to become the most extraordinary epic of survival in Antarctica. He was undoubtedly one of the most outstanding explorers of the 20th century and ranks high among our national icons -- abebooks website. |
| sir douglas mawson family tree: Australian Books National Library of Australia, 1967 |
| sir douglas mawson family tree: Who's who Henry Robert Addison, Charles Henry Oakes, William John Lawson, Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen, 1969 |
| sir douglas mawson family tree: South Australian Geographical Journal , 2005 |
| sir douglas mawson family tree: Yorkshire: West Riding Arthur Mee, 1950 |
| sir douglas mawson family tree: This Everlasting Silence Nancy Robinson Flannery, 2013-05-09 Nancy Robinson Flannery has done a fine job of editing these unabridged letters. They make poignant reading and are a reminder that even heroes suffer the same doubts and frailties as the rest of us.' (Elizabeth Dean, Australian Book Review, June 2000) Dark-eyed beauty Paquita Delprat, 17, first noticed the dashing Douglas Mawson, 27, at a function in Adelaide in 1909. By the end of 1910 they were engaged to be married. The only cloud on the horizon was Douglas's impending expedition to Antarctica. He expected to be away for fifteen months, but they did not count on the disastrous trek from which he staggered back, alone and close to death, to find that the waiting Aurora had given up and steamed away only hours earlier. Douglas was stranded for another full year, and the lovers' endurance was stretched to the limit. Long months intervened between ships to and from Antarctica. Letters from Douglas arrived in two batches, delivered twenty-two months apart. In one letter Paquita wailed, 'This everlasting silence is almost unbearable . . . ' The longer the lovers were apart, the more doubt, anxiety and despair crept into their correspondence, and the reader senses the growing strain on both sides. Touchingly, Douglas kept Paquita's letters all his life. Nancy Flannery first saw them in 1991 among the papers his Estate had entrusted to the University of Adelaide, and was intrigued to glimpse the emotional life of the austere explorer-scientist. Six years later, she found Douglas's letters to Paquita among private family papers, thus completing both sides of this romantic story. |
| sir douglas mawson family tree: Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia (Incorporated). Royal Society of South Australia, 1934 |
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| sir douglas mawson family tree: Quarterly Bulletin of the Providence Public Library Providence Public Library (R.I.), 1912 |
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| sir douglas mawson family tree: Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, Incorporated Royal Society of South Australia, 1959 |
| sir douglas mawson family tree: The Concise Encyclopedia of Australia John Henry Shaw, 1989 |
| sir douglas mawson family tree: AB Bookman's Weekly , 1999 |
| sir douglas mawson family tree: Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle , 1865 |
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used to begin a formal letter to a man whose name you do not know. "Dear Sirs" is an old fashioned way of beginning a letter to a company: Dear Sir, I am writing in response to your …
Sir - Wikipedia
Sir is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French …
SIR Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
Dec 8, 2016 · The meaning of SIR is a man entitled to be addressed as sir —used as a title before the given name of a knight or baronet and formerly sometimes before the given name of a …
SIR | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
used to begin a formal letter to a man whose name you do not know. "Dear Sirs" is an old fashioned way of beginning a letter to a company: Dear Sir, I am writing in response to your …
SIR definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
People sometimes say sir as a very formal and polite way of addressing a man whose name they do not know or a man of superior rank. For example, a shop assistant might address a male …
sir, n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English Dictionary
What does the noun sir mean? There are 19 meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun sir , two of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation …
sir noun - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes
Definition of sir noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. used as a polite way of addressing a man whose name you do not know, for example in a shop or restaurant. Good …
SIR definition | Cambridge Essential American Dictionary
SIR meaning: 1. You call a man “sir” when you are speaking to him politely: 2. a way of beginning a formal…. Learn more.
Sir Definition & Meaning | Britannica Dictionary
SIR meaning: 1 : used without a name as a form of polite address to a man you do not know; 2 : used without a name as a form of polite address to a man of rank or authority (such as a …
Sir - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | Vocabulary.com
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SIR | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary - Cambridge …
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