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In his 1911-14 expedition to Antarctica, Douglas Mawson took a wingless, single propelled plane with to use as an “air tractor” to haul supplies. On New Years Day 2010 a team of conservationists found parts of Mawson’s plane near his huts at Cape Denison. Low tide expose metalA team of Australian conservationists is at Cape Denison on Commonwealth Bay to preserve and restore Mawson’s original wooden Huts and to catalogue, treat and photograph artefacts.On New Years Day they had a very low tide after the blue moon the previous day, “the lowest...
Art Mortvedt and the Polar Pumpkin made it to the North Pole
