SIR DOUGLAS MAWSON
Sir Douglas Mawson, organiser and leader of the. Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914, who recently lectured, before the King and the Royal Geographical Society with great success is to repeat the lecture throughout Australia. . His story is described as being wonderfully interesting and thrilling, and further enhanced by the magnificent series of moving pictures and' studies of the Polar regions which will he shown. The tragic death of Lieutenant Ninnis in a crevasse, followed <by tho slow lingering death of Dr. Merte, and Sir Dougks Mawson's heroic march through tfie Antarctic solitudes alone for thirty-one days and nights, are incidents which will interest anc| thrill every one who hears them. Only two Wellington lectures will be given, next Tuesday and Wednesday at the Grand Opera House. Plans open to-morrow at tho Dresden.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2275, 8 October 1914, Page 9
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134SIR DOUGLAS MAWSON Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2275, 8 October 1914, Page 9
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