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Studying to become a Geologist he applied for attending the University of geological survey, of the New Hebrides located in Vanuatu, under the auspices of Captain E. G. Rason, the British deputy commissioner, he was in charge of it running the University. This was Mawson's introduction to scientific exploration, carried out in rugged country with dense jungle and among hostile inhabitants. His report, 'The geology of the New Hebrides', was one of the first major works on the geology of Melanesia( The report was published). He also published that year a geological paper on Mittagong, NSW.

Ernest Shackleton had invited Edgeworth David and Douglas Mawson on his expedition for pragmatic reasons. Yet in these two he found much more mere pawns in the political game of expedition fundraising. Edgeworth David was the senior member of an otherwise youthful team of men with varied temperaments and tolerances. The Professor who has Shackleton's early friend, was a good talker and a good listener with acts of a gentlemen he was well respected natural response - a useful commodity on a long and difficult Antarctic expedition.His first chance to visit the Antarctic was when he had to to climb Mount Erebus and return. This new life that Mawson entered found himself knowing he was going to return. He had many positive thoughts on what was going to happen on the expedition so he held his head up high. (The expedition was completed in the year 1908).

When he was thirty years of age he did just that - as a leader of the first Australasian Expedition to Antarctica. His aim was to examine and explore the coastal area of Antarctica's closest point to Australia. He had to sail the Aurora from Australia to arrive in Antarctica for the purpose of his expedition. He accomplished this in 1911. He was then later married to one of his sister's friend's, Paquita Delprat, he seemed to be quite attracted to her. He was knighted and moved to preach another expedition, to reach the South Magnetic Pole. It would have been a tough task with no team to adventure with. He found and voyaged with Xavier Mertz and Lieutenant Belgrave Ninnis, those three men were also apart of a three-man sledging team. Ninnis was never seen again after falling into a large crevasse while sledging with Mawson and Mertz. Mertz became increasingly weak and he too died. The accomplishment flew through Mawson's mind as he reached the South Magnetic Pole. His team was brave but he wasn't safe after the satisfying death of both of his crew members. Mawson's first voyage was with Ernest Shackleton and his team made it easier to travel around Antarctica with.

He sadly approached his death in his Brighton home from a cerebral haemorrhage (meaning blood leaks from the brain) on November 14th, 1958. He appeared on the Australian 100$ note from 1984 to 1996. He was 76 years old when he died not being able to finish off his latest novel about his last expedition, his eldest daughter Patricia had completed his work in 1975. Sir Douglas Mawson on the Australian 100$ notemedia type="custom" key="6181735" width="38" height="38"media type="custom" key="6193527" width="40" height="40"media type="custom" key="6193559" width="40" height="40" media type="custom" key="6193621" width="40" height="40"

Advantages:
 * It would have been a dangerous but thrilling experience to visit where he voyaged.
 * To achieve discovering the South Magnetic Pole and to reach the top of Mount Erebus would be amazing.
 * He would have been very popular from the various events that he was involved in.
 * He was safer when he journeyed with Ernest Shackleton and his team when they reached the top of Mount Erebus.
 * Grateful to explore the Antarctic region.
 * He had a team to travel with him on expeditions for guidance and protection.

Disadvantages:
 * Would have been difficult to travel in the Antarctic snow and ice.
 * He Risked his life to discover different causes and unnotified facts about Antarctica.
 * It would have been a very tiring experience.
 * He would have caught a sickness rather quickly in Antarctica, if he already had a disease or sickness it would have been hard to recover from.
 * His snow dogs didn't help them much and didn't occupy far in their work on the Australasian Antarctic expedition.

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Antarctica has six months of daylight and six months of darkness. The earth revolves around the sun and tilts on it's axis. During the winter, Antarctica is tilted away from the sun, causing it to be dark. For the half of the year that is summer, Antarctica is facing the sun and absorbs more of its direct rays. The lowest temperature ever recorded in Antarctica was -129ºF. The warmest temperature ever recorded in Antarctica was 59ºF, still it was pretty cold. The average summer temperature is 20ºF. The average winter temperature is -30ºF. The highest wind speed ever in Antarctica was when the wind was moving at five metres per second. The wind is an important factor in making Antarctica cold. The wind can lower the temperatures of Antarctica by at least ten degrees. The Antarctic is colder than the North Pole because it warms up faster and it cools down faster. Antarctica gets warmer faster than the Arctic because the Ocean water carries heat from the equator to the poles. The land of Antarctica heats up faster than the waters of the Arctic. media type="custom" key="6211645" width="40" height="40"

Antarctica has a lot of wildlife or nature, the wildlife have to live freezing temperatures everyday. There are about five main animals of Antarctic wildlife in Antarctica, they are whales, penguins, seals, birds and small fish which would remain near the bottom of the Antarctic Food Chain. Penguins have 17 different specimens, the main ones you would see if you were in Antarctica are Rockhopper, Adelie and Emperor penguins. Penguins have a diet that consists of fish, krill and other small crustaceans. Whales are extremely large and remain at the top of the Food Chain they are predators. Predators are animals that lay at the top of the Food Chain meaning that they have a definite chance that they would not be attacked or threatened by another animal in their Food Chain or group. Whales are considered to be the most magnificent and most intelligent marine mammals in the Antarctic, mostly oceans worldwide. They have slick, smooth stream lines on the bottom of their stomach to make it easier to swim in the ocean. The average weight of these creatures are around 7 tons and have a diet of small fish( fish in general), birds and marine mammals. Seals are truly fascinating and intelligent marine mammals having a population of around 700,000 altogether and by that I mean all the specimens of seals. There are 6 species of seals, they are, fur, crab eater, leopard, ross and elephant seals. Their diet consists on fish, and squid. Male seals can weigh up to around 4 tons and the females weigh up to around 1 ton.

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 * A Youtube video about Antarctic Wildlife**:

Well as you all know Antarctica has no native human life because the living conditions are extremely cold. It is a hostile environment and living there is really difficult, you could tell it is difficult because of the climate, it is too cold for any human being to live there. Researchers from several amounts of countries occupy Antarctica and propose an agreement, to keep pollution and any other damage from entering this frozen continent. Ship and air supply provide food, equipment, clothing as well as scientists, researchers personnel, cargo and small vehicles. It is extremely difficult to live in Antarctica.

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