Later life

Douglas mawson married francisa adriana on the 31st July 1905. He had two children named patricia who was born in 1915 and Jessica who was born in 1917. Douglas got medals and trophies when he came back from his journey. He sadly died on the 14th f October at the age of 75 at Britton home.

Achievements

Sir Douglas Manson did a lot of achievements. One of them was that he claimed 7692024km of land of Antarctica for Australia. He s Australia's most famous antarctic explorer for what he did and what he went throw. He got lots of medals and trophies for what he did and everyone thought he was amazing and they still do today.

Details of journey

When he went to Antarctica he saw an amazing view with lots of animals and nature, so they decided to build there hut there. It took a while about 5 weeks exept when they finished they were so happy. Afer a week or two they finally resized that they built there hut in the coldest place on earth. There were snowstorms and conditions with the weather. Then hey finally started the journey. Three men went out into the snow alone to claim a heap of land for Australa. The three men were sir Douglas Masson, mertz and ninnies.ninnis was carrieng all the food in a big sledg while the others had the tent and the supplies.when they travelled about a kilometre Douglas and Mertz realised that ninnies wasn't behind them. They walked and walked until they found him. Then they finally found a crevasse. So they put down a rope and called and called exept know one answered, so they gave up. They kept on walking. They got starving and starvinger every time they moved. They finally had to eat the dogs. Mertz was a vegetarian so he did not like to eat the dogs. They did not realiz that the dogs had poison in them till later. There skin started to peal and they hardly had any cream to help their skin. So they pulled it themselves. Mertz was really starting to get decease and struggle to walk. He could not even get in and out of his sleeping bag. One night Douglas tucked mertz in and he was shaking a lot. A few hours later Douglas woke up and realised that mertz froze to death. He berried him in the ice and buit a cross for a grave and kept on travelling. He traveled without any food and anyone. He was so close to the base that he saw the boat leave back because the other men waited a year for them and thought they did, but 6 men stayed at base. Douglas was so frustrated. Then in the distance he found something. It was a bag filled with oranges that the 6 men put down. He ate and ate to keep him alive. Then 2 days later he reached base. They were so happy to see Escher but had to wait another year for the boat to come back.

Early life

Born on the 5th of may 1882 in sharply yorkshire England. He is the second son of Robert and Ellis Mawson. He moved to footy hill near Sydney in 1884 at the age of two, and the same year he moved all the way to Australia. At school he was a bright student who was 16 when he started university of Sydney. He first visited Antarctica at the age of 26, and was part of a team who climed mount Erebus, antarcticas active volcano and to claim the land of Antarctica. He was a geologist, explorer and a academic. In 1911 Mawson led the Australian Anartic exposition to Antarctica. When he was 30 years of age, his aim was to explore the costal area of Antarcica closest to Australia.