Douglas Mawson (1882–1958)
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Sir Douglas Mawson was an Australian geologist and Antarctic explorer born in 1882. In 1909, he was among the first party to reach the Magnetic South Pole as a member of Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition. He manned his own expedition to Antarctica in 1911.
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- 1958-10-14
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- Fort Street High School, Sydney, Australia
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But elsewhere, among the sometimes boring scientific obs and routine, are passages that make you certain Lovecraft read this:
"We had come to probe its mystery, we had hoped to reduce it to terms of science, but there was always the 'indefinable' which held aloof, yet riveted our souls."
Or:
"Climbing out of the veranda, one was immediately swallowed in the chaos of hurtling drift, the darkness sinister and menacing [...] Unseen wizard hands clutched with insane fury, hacked and harried."
More than half the book is taken up with the non-Mawson, "subsidiary", narratives, of which Grainger's account of his two years on MacQuarie Island is sometimes quite funny, for example when the men are bored enough to mess with the penguins' heads by adding 10 eggs to a nest while a parent is away, or when a new paragraph starts "Blake found a cave..."
Finally I enjoyed the presence of radiocommunications in this book. The various parties take the radio equipment with them, but it's only after a year or so that it starts to work. We feel their excitement and wonder as their isolation begins to melts away with the interchange of dots and dashes. The "heroic age" of Antarctic exploration is ending, but only a masochist would want to go back to it.… (mehr)