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  1. King's birthday! Celebratory activities: figuring out infernal primus heater & listening to massive blizzard. And obligatory drink to health about 2 hours ago via TweetDeck
  2. Strong blizzard, so mostly inside today. Now partaking in a round of hymn singing. #hardcore. 1:34 AM Jun 2nd via TweetDeck
  3. Excellent work on those cheese potatoes @MertzAAE 2:52 AM Jun 1st via TweetDeck
  4. Got some interesting animals from the sea dredge – starfish, diatoms, pycnogonids, new gastropod, sponge, white worms... 5:28 PM May 31st via web
  5. RT @KJBar Let it grow! - Unfortunately I have a distinctly non-shaggy image to maintain. 8:32 PM May 30th via TweetDeck
  6. Woke up today with ridiculous hair. Deciding on who I should trust to cut it. 2:44 PM May 30th via TweetDeck
  7. Quite enjoying my new story teller role - have started reading The Trail of 98 after dinner to the men. Dogs don't seem that into it. 2:12 AM May 30th via TweetDeck
  8. Just thinking – enormous amount of power in this constant wind is completely going to waste. 5:59 PM May 28th via web
  9. Productive sort of day today - planning to create a barrier to collect snow drift against the hangar, and build tunnels to house dogs. 4:46 PM May 27th via TweetDeck
  10. Fine weather today for a change. Would be feeling much better about it if it wasn't still so cold my sea water exploded the billy. 5:48 PM May 26th via TweetDeck
  11. Black lichens under the snow are now green. According to Hunter it's because there's no light, and so the green algae predominates. 9:13 PM May 25th via TweetDeck
  12. Entire landscape blue today, almost like blue-black ink. Never seen this colour before. 9:08 PM May 25th via TweetDeck
  13. Pic of the air tractor from yesterday goo.gl/2Ugtv 6:56 PM May 24th via web
  14. Hmm, occasionally I notice a distinct lack of enthusiasm for volunteering for horrendous outdoor tasks. Am looking at you Close! 6:55 PM May 24th via web
  15. Bickerton took the air tractor out for a spin today - did pretty well considering. 9:31 PM May 23rd via TweetDeck
  16. Well, that bread experiment proved disappointing - #badpun - hut's too cold for the yeast. Not inedible, but not great either. 8:12 PM May 22nd via web
  17. Temperature is -32C outside. Just got back from working on wireless – wind takes one's breath away completely. 7:36 PM May 21st via web
  18. Water temp in bay is -1.5°C. Lull in blizzard at the moment, Hurley's getting some great colour photos. 6:01 PM May 20th via TweetDeck
  19. Good news is @MertzAAE and Ninnis have found the dogs. Bad news is the hut's leaking. 11:48 PM May 19th via TweetDeck
  20. Erm, anyone seen the dogs? We seem to have lost them in a huge snow drift. 5:39 PM May 19th via TweetDeck
  • Name Douglas Mawson
  • Location Antarctica
  • Web http://www.antarc...
  • Bio Douglas Mawson, Leader of Australasian #Antarctic Expedition 1911-14. By Tasmanian Government DEDTA www.development.tas.gov.au. Images: Mitchell Library & AAD
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