Douglas Mawson centenary trip to Antarctica frozen as cold reality sets in
• BY:MATTHEW DENHOLM, ANTARCTICA
• From:The Australian
• December 21, 2011 12:00AM
ONE hundred years after Douglas Mawson’s first Australian-led Antarctic expedition was almost defeated by thick pack ice, the same problem has stumped those seeking to follow in his wake.
Unusually dense ice floes off the coast of East Antarctica, and particularly Mawson’s landing spot of January 1912, Commonwealth Bay, have in recent days repelled private expeditions seeking to commemorate the centenary of the historic event.
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