P000631 derived AU-BS Bright Sparcs created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, G.J. revised 2006-08-01 machine BSConverta Some process P000631 person Mawson Douglas AACR2 Shipley, Yorkshire, England Brighton, South Australia, Australia 1882 1958 Geologist and Explorer

(Sir) Douglas Mawson was leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-14 and the British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition 1929-31. He was Lecturer in Geology, University of Adelaide 1905-20 and Professor of Geology and Mineralogy 1921-52. Kt cr 1914, OBE. Antarctic medal, Royal Geographical Society 1909, Founder's medal, Royal Geographical Society 1915, King's Polar medal (two bars), Gold medal, American Geographical Society, Gold medal, Chicago Geographical Society, Gold medal, Paris Geographical Society, Bigsby Medal, Geological Society of London 1919, Fellow, Royal Society 1923, Nachtigal gold medal, Gessellschaft für Erdkunde 1928, Mueller medal, ANZAAS 1930, Sir Joseph Verco medal, Royal Society of South Australia 1931, Founder's medal, Royal Geographical Society of Australia (Queensland) 1931, Foundation Fellow, Australian Academy of Science 1954. Commemorated by Mawson base, Antarctica, Mawson Laboratories, University of Adelaide and Mawson Lecture, Australian Academy of Science.

 Mawson, Douglas The Home of the Blizzard: the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Kent Town, SA Wakefield Press 1996 Mawson, D. The Role of Geology in the Activities of the Royal Society of South Australia. 1954 Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia lxxvii xii-xiv Mawson, Douglas A Current Geographical Outlook 1921 Australasian Association for Advancement of Science xv 145-160 Mawson, Douglas Progress in Knowledge of the Geology of South Australia 1936 Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia 60 lvi-lxv Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre Science and the making of Victoria 2001 Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre Federation and Meteorology 2001 White, F. W.G. Robert Gordon Menzies (1894-1978) 1980 Historical Records of Australian Science 5 1 68-102 Crompton, R. W. Leonard George Holden Huxley 1902-198 1991 Historical Records of Australian Science 8 4 249-264 Sherratt, Tim "On the beach": Australia's nuclear history 1996 State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana Douglas Mawson - Records PRG 523 1904 - 1973 Papers of Sir Douglas Mawson and those of his wife, consisting of correspondence, lecture notes, manuscripts, newspaper cuttings and photographs. Includes literary manuscripts. 3 m State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana Douglas Mawson - Records PRG 523 1904 - 1973 Papers of Sir Douglas Mawson and those of his wife, consisting of correspondence, lecture notes, manuscripts, newspaper cuttings and photographs. Includes literary manuscripts. 3 m Barr Smith Library, Special Collections, The University of Adelaide Douglas Mawson - Records MSS 0009 1887 - 1956 Notes, field notes, extracts, draft and typescript papers, reprints and correspondence 1897-1956 of and collected by Mawson relating to research on the sub-division of the Adelaide (Cambrian) system, on glaciation and sturtian tillites, on rock formations of the Cambrian and Pre-Cambrian, on the Proterozoic sequence, on Pre-Ordovician rocks of the McDonnell Ranges and on the geology of the Encounter Bay area; the collection includes the correspondence, notes and articles of W. Howchin on glaciation 1905-37 and cuttings of articles and letters to newspapers by Howchin on religion and geology 1887-1906; overall dates 1887-1956 [85 cm, MSS 0009]. 0.85 m South Australian Museum Archives Douglas Mawson - Records NA 11 1903 Manuscript and typescript notes for 'Knee moulded pots from the New Hebrides' which was published in "Records of the South Australian Museum" Volume 13 [1 volume, NA 11]. Mawson was making geological investigations in the New Hebrides in 1903. 1 volume National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection Douglas Mawson - Records MS 5970 1931 Proclamation written on rag paper in copperplate by A.L. Kennedy and signed by Mawson declaring that 'the full sovereignty of the Territory of King George V Land and its extension ... vests in His Majesty King George the Fifth, his heirs and successors forever" 1931 [1 page, MS 5970]. 1 page South Australian Museum Archives Douglas Mawson - Records 1882 - 1958 A large collection of personal and administrative correspondence, geological and Antarctic field diaries, publication records, records of observational and scientific data, financial records and other personal material c1882-1958 [13 m]. A comprehensive guide to the collection is available. 13 m Artwork, Film, Objects, Photographs Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science Douglas Mawson - Records MS 30 1937 - 1964 Scripts of two Australian Broadcasting Commission programmes by John Thompson entitled 'Portrait of a Scientist' and 'South with Sir Douglas Mawson' 1964; correspondence concerning Coorangite 1937-50 [1.5 cm, MS 30]. 0.015 m Mawson, Douglas - Ms 30 Australian Academy of Science 1994 Listing of Adolph Basser Library holdings Taylor, T. Griffith Douglas Mawson Melbourne Oxford University Press 1962 Great Australians Professor Sir Douglas Mawson, Kt, OBE, BE, DSc FRS, 1882-1958 1959 Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia 82 1-6 Jacka, F. J. Mawson, Sir Douglas (1882-1958), Geologist and Explorer Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1986 Australian Dictionary of Biography Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle 10 454-457 Law, Philip The Mawson Story - No 1: 'a Powerful, Stubborn and Gentle Man' 1986 Royal Historical Society of Victoria Journal 57 1 3-13 Law, Philip The Mawson Story - Part 2: Hungry and Alone in the Antarctic 1986 Royal Historical Society of Victoria Journal 57 2 13-18 Innes, Margaret and Duff, Heather Mawson's Papers: a Guide to the Scientific, Personal and Business Papers of Sir Douglas Mawson, OBE, BE, DSc, FRS, FAA, 1882-1958, Professor of Geology and Mineralogy, Antarctic Scientist and Explorer Adelaide Mawson Institute for Antarctic Research, University of Adelaide 1990 MacLeod, Roy 'Full of Honour and Gain to Science': Munitions Production, Technical Intelligence and the Wartime Career of Sir Douglas Mawson, FRS 1988 Historical Records of Australian Science 7 2 189-202 Fletcher, Harold Oswald Antarctic Days with Mawson: a Personal Account of the British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition of 1929-31 London Angus & Robertson 1984 Peake-Jones, Ken The Other Mawson: a Centennial Tribute to Sir Douglas Mawson 1984 Royal Geographical Society of Australia (SA Branch), Proceedings 82 64-70 Peter, David and Parer-Cook, Elizabeth Douglas Mawson, the Survivor Morwell Alella Books in association with the ABC 1983 Ferguson, Richard Antarctic Artefacts: a Selective Description and Annotated Catalogue of Artefacts in the Mawson Collection at the University of Adelaide Adelaide University of Adelaide 1995 Laseron, Charles F. Obituary: Sir Douglas Mawson 1958 Australian Journal of Science 21 5 134-135 Douglas Mawson, 1882-1958 1959 Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 84 410-414 McGregor, Alasdair Mawson's Huts: an Antarctic Expedition Journal Sydney Hale & Iremonger 1998 Flannery, Nancy Robinson This Everlasting Silence the Love Letters of Paquita Delprat and Douglas Mawson 1911-1914 Melbourne Melbourne University Press 2000 Corbett, David W.P. Douglas Mawson: the Geologist as Explorer 1998 Records of the South Australian Museum 30 2 107-136 Hall, Lincoln Douglas Mawson: the Life of an Explorer London New Holland Press 2000 Ayres, Philip Mawson: a Life Carlton South Melbourne University Press 2003 Flannery, Nancy Beyond the Balaclava Radio National 2003 Ockham's Razor