Mawson
Proper noun
Meaning
A surname.
A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
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Early life Mawson was born on 5 May 1882 to Robert Ellis Mawson and Margaret Ann Moore.
Home of the Blizzard In his book The Home of the Blizzard, Mawson talked of "Herculean gusts" on 24 May 1912 which he learned afterwards "approached two hundred miles per hour".
In 2011, Ranulph Fiennes included Mawson in his book My Heroes: Extraordinary Courage, Exceptional People.
Later Mawson noticed a dramatic change in his travelling companion.
Mark Pharoah, curator of the Mawson collection at the South Australia Museum in Adelaide.
Mawson and six men who had remained behind to look for him wintered a second year until December 1913.