MawsonHistory comes to life with Peter FitzSimons in the story of Australias most famous polar explorer and the giants from the heroic age of polar exploration: Scott, Amundsen, and Shackleton. Sir Douglas Mawson, born in 1882 and knighted in 1914, remains Australia's greatest Antarctic explorer. On 2 December 1911, his Australasian Antarctic Expedition left Hobart to explore the virgin frozen coastline below Australia, 2,000 miles of which had never felt