About
Antarctic explorer who wrote the popular book The Home of the Blizzard.
Before Fame
He studied and taught geology at the University of Adelaide.
Trivia
Robert Scott invited him on the famed Terra Nova expedition, but Mawson declined, and planned his own expedition instead.
Family Life
He and his family emigrated from England to Australia when he was young.
Associated With
Roald Amundsen was another key figures in what came to be known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
