Douglas Mawson

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conditions of Douglas Mawson, Australian explorer investigating Antarctica for scientific research. Henrietta Lacks, a woman who had her cells taken without permission, only for scientists to find out they rapidly multiply and help studies towards illnesses (Immortal Cells, Enduring Issues). Phineas Gage was a person who had a metal rod shot through his head and lived, which helped contribute to brain science (Book and Video), but none of their encounters come close to Douglas Mawson. Douglas…

have ever had any like Douglas Mawson, Phineas Gage and Henrietta Lacks. Douglas Mawson, Phineas Gage, and Henrietta Lacks, have experienced a lot of dreadful adversities to achieve scientific advancement. Douglas Mawson went on a antarctic expedition and struggled to make it out with his life, Henrietta Lacks was getting cancer treatments and was used for research without her permission, and Phineas Gage was working on a railroad and blasted a metal threw his head. Douglas Mawson has endured…

Douglas Mawson’s soles of his feet were hanging off, oozing blood and pus, as he trudged through the snow of Antarctica. Would you make a physical sacrifice like that to achieve a goal? There have been a copious amount of sacrifices made to make new discoveries in science. The scene described above was suffered by Douglas Mawson. This man and two other people made very substantial sacrifices; he risked his life to learn as much about Antarctica as he could and sacrificed the most out of all of…

Lacks, Douglas Mawson, and Phineas Gage- went through many adversities and encountered countless troublesome situations and people, Douglas Mawson endured the most hardships and adversities- both physically, mentally, and emotionally. Henrietta Lacks had to face the removal of her cells without permission, as well as cervical cancer; the adversity that took her life. Phineas Gage had to fight through all of the issues that came with having a metal pole blasted through his head. Meanwhile, Mawson…

There are many Australian Antarctic explorers, for example: Captain John King Davis, Clarence Petersen de la Motte, Professor Edgeworth David, Sir Douglas Mawson. Many of whom have had amazing survival stories across the Antarctic. I will be studying Sir Douglas Mawson, He is an Australian Pioneer and is most famous for his long expeditions across the Antarctic. One of his expeditions was the "Mawson’s Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE), 1911–1914". After his incredible journey, geologists…

losses of ships and men. First, an expedition to Antarctica in 1902-1903 resulted in the ship being crushed by pack ice, resulting in the crew having to stay for two frigid winters before they were rescued. Second, an expedition in 1912 led by Douglas Mawson say two people die, and the explorer himself barely made it home alive. Third, an expedition led by Vilhjalmr Stefansson in 1913, led to the ship being lost, which resulted in the deaths of eleven men. In this particular expedition, most men…