Talk:Douglas Mawson

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I think this page needs more detailed information.. especially on his knighthood and his expeditions.

Bold textWhen and were did he (Sir Douglas mawson) die ??????

Feel free to add it. - Diceman 13:48, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Additional Information about 1911-13 Expedition

The current entry does not do justice to the remarkable survival of Mawson and the hardships he faced.

Mawson's party set out on 5 November 1912.

Ninnis fell into the crevasse on 14 December, some 320 miles from the Main Base.

Because most of their provisions were lost, Mawson and Mertz had to resort to eating the livers of the Greenland huskies. As a result, both suffered a toxic overdose Vitamin A. It was this that caused the death of Mertz and rapid deterioration in Mawson's physical condition. (When Mawson died in 1958, he was unaware of this factor.)

Mertz died on 9 January, about 100 miles from Main Base.

Mawson was confined to his tent for another three days because of severe weather. By this stage he had to ration himself to 8 ounces of food per day allowing for 20 days subsistence.

A search party set out on 25 January but failed to find Mawson. On 28 January they built a cairn and left provisions.

On the afternoon of 28 January, about 5 hours later, Mawson discovered the cairn.

Mawson continued for another three days before reaching an ice-hole called Aladdin's Cave, which the explorers used as a camp. More bad weather forced him to spend another 7 nights at this camp.

He made it back to the main camp on 8 February. The ship, Aurora, had been unable to wait and had left six hours before, leaving a volunteer party to stay behind in case there were any survivors. The Aurora returned on 10 February but was unable to pick up Mawson and the party, who then had to stay at Commonwealth Bay until mid-December 1913.

--MUpcher 14:36, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

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This page needs a serious addition of information. As previously mentioned, there is nothing of his most notable expidition and NOTHING ABOUT HOW HE DISCOVERED URANIUM!!! This is shocking, and is a true insult to Wikipedia's reliability. --Will James 07:50, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

P.S. Mawson died back home of vitamin A poisoning that he got from eating his Huskeys due to a lack of food. One of his partners died of this too.

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