lucas,lara,zoe,aiden

zoe, lara, lucas and aiden
__biography__

Hello my name is Douglas Mawson. You might recognise me from my picture on the $100 note. I was born in England in 1882 and moved to Sydney when I was four. I studied at the University of Sydney and got my degrees in Engineering and Geology. My role as a geologist led me to join the Antarctic Expedition led by Earnest Shackleton in 1907. In 1911 I led the Australasian Antarctic Expedition where my aim was to find the South Magnetic Pole immediately South of Australia. This journey was both happy and sad for me as two of my companions died and I had to complete the journey alone. It was 160km and took 30 Days. I continued exploring throughout my life finding this very rewarding. ok now lets get started! __ His Antarctic life __."media type="custom" key="12948512"

The first Australasian Expedition to Antarctica.His aim was to map and explore the coastal area of Antarctica closest to Australia. his selected team and in the ship 'Aurora' we sailed through one thousand, five hundred kilometres of pack ice to the Antarctic coast. Our first job to do was to build a hut to keep us safe and sound, their group dicided to name it the "home of the blizzard" they named it that because three hundred kilometre per hour winds blew men off their feet. They were the most fearsome gales on the planet. the weather and poor light, the group had to drag themselves and their supplies around crevasses and slippery ice covered rock. Just five weeks into the journey Ninnis a group member disappeared down a deep crevasse with a team of dogs and the sled carrying most of the food. Mertz and myself had to turn back and in order to survive we were forced to shoot and eat the remaining huskies because all of the food had fallen into the crevasse, we were very lucky to survive with that amount of food. but before you new it Mertz became sick and increasingly weak and he died. he was near death - my feet was fully in blood,my skin was falling away and I had lost a lot of weight. I would never had known what killed mertz and made him sick with toxic levels of vitamin A from the dogs. He guess you are wondering now of how he got saved! well i got saved by a rope i only had the strenght in myself but mertz didn't have the strenght to pull his body up. now when i think of it i am so greatfull and lucky to be alive right now. advantages and disavantages advantages disadvantages
 * being able to do the work he loved and that is exploring antarctica.
 * experiencing great adventures and beautiful scenery.
 * spending quality time with his collegues.
 * discover new things like weather climate, wildlife, ice and etc.
 * enduring the extreme freezing conditions.
 * risking lives.
 * low rations of food meant eating dog food for part of the journey.
 * spending 2 years without his family.

media type="youtube" key="72sgyZpHGq8" width="442" height="240" **__What work have I done in Antarctica?__** **I have done lots of work investigating Antarctica.** our work that we did was very fun and interesting. we did lots of team work and we were t**he first to climb to the top of Mount Erebus, Antarctica's active volcano, and the first to reach the magnetic South Pole.** **The beautiful nature in Antarctica** While pristine environment is constantly decreasing on Earth, the Antarctic Continent, which covers approximately 1/12 of the entire global land area, remains out of human activities. The unique natural environment supports local wildlife and keeps the historical record of the Earth. Shining icebergs amid the deep blue sea, pure white land that expands toward the horizon, mountains exposed in ice sheets, unique wildlife, and mystic aurora--- All these provide us with magnificent landscapes that can be found nowhere else. The Antarctic Treaty was signed in 1959 by 12 countries including Japan and entered into force in 1961. It was one of the outcome of the International Geophysical Year (1957-58), when the global society worked together on maintain and moving ahead international teamwork in scientific research.
 * **weather**
 * **wildlife**
 * how unique the continent is
 * minerals & coal underground etc

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