Mawson's Antarctica

Australian Antarctic Festival - Mawson's Huts Foundation

The only event of its kind in Australia, the Australian Antarctic Festival celebrates the role of Hobart as one of the world's pre-eminent gateways to the ...

Sir Douglas Mawson's 1911 lunch recreated, with a twist

Sir Douglas Mawson met his Antarctic expedition members for lunch at Hadley's Orient Hotel in Hobart in 1911. Soon his Antarctic Expedition ...

Celebrating Sir Douglas Mawson's Centenary Australasian Antarctic ...

Skeins of spindrift dance over a smattering of huts nearly lost in a landscape of rocky outcrops and dark ice. From the deck of our ice-strengthened ship my ...