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[|Film clip of movie made by **Australian photographer Frank Hurley** during the antarctic expedition of Douglas Mawson]

This book brings this intriguing story alive with a highly visual presentation that will engage students. Graphic-style re-enactments are employed alongside conventional presentation to convey details that text alone cannot convey, and to show different viewpoints simultaneously. n the early 1900s, Antarctica was one of the world's last unexplored wilderness areas. In 1911, Douglas Mawson and his team set off to explore Antarctica and gather scientific information. Their journey was dangerous, and Mawson faced terrible choices along the way. However, the expedition raised the profile of Australian science around the world, and Mawson's research has helped protect the Antarctic environment from human impacts. Sir Douglas Mawson, antarctic explorer, article in Adelaidia
 * **//Douglas Mawson's Antarctic Expedition//**by Melanie Guile ||~  || South Yarra, Vic. : Macmillan Library, 2010. 32 p. : chiefly col. ill., facsims., col. map, ports. ; 29 cm. ||
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Film clip of movie made by **Australian photographer Frank Hurley** during the antarctic expedition of Ernest Shackleton

Australian Nobel Prize Winners

Professor Fred Hollows

Rupert Murdoch Kerry Packer Janet Holmes a Court

Dr H,. V. Evatt

Charles Kingsford Smith, Charles Ulm (film clip showing re-enacted epic flight across the Pacific and, in the second part, Gordon Taylor's feat of climbing onto the wing to transfer oil during a mail flight from New Zealand) Another film clip with enacted and also genuine footage of them arriving first in Brisbane and then on Randwick Racecourse in Sydney And yet another clip of Smith and Gordon Taylor crossing the Pacific

Jean Batten

Ross and Keith Smith - film clip taken by Frank Hurley looking over Sydney as Smith arrives by plane from London 1919

Bert Hinkler

Sir Hubert Wilkins, arctic explorer

Film clip of Dick Smith flying around the world solo in a helicopter 1983

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