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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. Fred Hollows saving sight Film clip of William Ferguson and other Australian scientists discovering and documenting early Australian dinosaurs and mammals
 * **//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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David Unaipon, inventor, writer and worker for Aboriginal rights

Fillm clip of Reg Sprigg and his discoveries of the oldest fossils in the world in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia

Sir William Henry Bragg and son Lawrence Bragg, awarded the 1915 Nobel Prize for Physics for their discovery and experiments with X-ray crystallography

Lord Howard Florey, pioneer in the discovery of penicillin and making it available in enough quantities to save millions of lives. Nobel Prize winner, 1945

Dr Fiona Stanley, Professor of pediatrics and child health at the University of Western Australia. Australian of the Year, 2003

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