Douglas Mawson

thumb|Sir Douglas Mawson in 1914 Sir Douglas Mawson (5 May 1882 – 14 October 1958) was an English-born Australian explorer and professor of geology. Quotes thumb| Douglas Mawson The Home of the Blizzard (1915) online text at Project Gutenberg If we ignore the facts contained in one part of the world, surely we are hampering scientific advance. We had found an accursed country. On the fringe of an unspanned continent along whose gelid coast our comrades had made their home—we knew not where—we dwelt where the chill breath of a vast, Polar wilderness, quickening to the rushing might of eternal blizzards, surged to the northern seas. External links Biography Category:Academics from Australia Category:Explorers from Australia category:1882 births category:1958 deaths Category:People from England