Douglas Mawson Timeline

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  • Douglas Mawson is born is Shipley, West Yorkshire, England

  • The Mawson family migrates from England to Rooty Hill, near Sydney in New South Wales

  • The Mawson family moves to Glebe, Sydney.

  • Having completed school Douglas begins studing geology and mining engineering at the Univerity of sydney

  • Douglas joins an exibition to the new Hebrides and produces a major geological report

  • Douglas becomes a lecturer at the University of Adelaide and reasearches rock formations

  • In Broken Hill Douglas meets G.D. Delprat, the general managre of BHP, and is introduced to his daughter, whom Douglas later marries

  • douglas is appointed team physicist to Ernest Shackleton's exebition to the South Pole