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The Most Terrible Polar Exploration Ever

Mike Dash | Smithsonian | 27 January 2012

Life and Death in Antarctica, VI by Newtown grafitti Utterly gripping account of Douglas Mawson's 1912-13 Antarctic expedition. Unimaginable hardship in the cause of science. Mawson's hair fell out, skin peeled off. He survived only by bathing his eyes in cocaine and eating his dogs Read full article

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