Australian Antarctic explorer, Douglas Mawson, was born on 5 May 1882, in Yorkshire, but his family emigrated to Australia in 1884.
Sir Douglas Mawson was Australian.
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He was a very great man, he made it out of a very risky situation and lived without foodHe was awarded the Clarke medal in 1936, in 1920 he was appointed O.B.E( order of the british empire.).He was...
he was an Australian Arntarctic geologist