[DOC] [TLE] Sir Douglas Mawson (18821958)  Australian Antarctic Division [PAR] Oct 6, 2011 ... Geologist, academic and antarctic explorer, Douglas Mawson lead Australia's 
first major scientific exploring endeavour beyond the Australian continent, and ... 
Sir Douglas and Lady Mawson at Brighton home in South Australia Sir ... Far 
Eastern Journey departed Main Base in November 1912, on what... [DOC] [TLE] Douglas Mawson - Wikipedia [PAR] Sir Douglas Mawson OBE FRS FAA (5 May 1882  14 October 1958) was an 
Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer and academic. ... Sole survivor of Far 
Eastern Party ... Mawson chose to lead his own expedition, the Australasian 
Antarctic ... the sector of the Antarctic continent immediately south of Australia, 
which at the... [DOC] [TLE] Australasian Antarctic Expedition - Wikipedia [PAR] The Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE) was an Australasian scientific team 
that explored part of Antarctica between 1911 and 1914. It was led by the... [DOC] [TLE] List of Antarctic expeditions - Wikipedia [PAR] This list of Antarctic expeditions is a chronological list of expeditions involving 
Antarctica. Although the existence of a southern continent had been 
hypothesized as early as the writings of Ptolemy in the 1st century AD, the South 
Pole was not reached until 1911. .... 18921893  Carl Anton Larsen led the first 
Norwegian expedition to... [DOC] [TLE] Douglas Mawson - Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1914 [PAR] Douglas Mawson an Australian by adoption was offered a place on Scott's Terra 
Nova expedition but turned it down to lead the Australasian Antarctic Expedition... [DOC] [TLE] Mawson's Antarctic Trek: The Greatest Survival Story - Pictures ... [PAR] On the far side, two separate sledge tracks led up to the hole; on the near side, 
only one led away. ... 14, 1912. Thirty years old, already a seasoned explorer, 
Douglas Mawson was the leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE), 
a 31-man team pursuing the most ambitious exploration yet of the southern 
continent. [DOC] [TLE] Antarctic Explorers: Douglas Mawson - South-Pole.com [PAR] Mawson's expedition team was selected primarily from Australian and New 
Zealand .... At 4 p.m. on January 8, 1912, a whale boat was lowered and rowed 
towards shore. ... The men soon stepped ashore, the first to set foot on the 
Antarctic continent ... Without a doubt, the Eastern Coastal Party, led by Madigan, 
enjoyed the... [DOC] [TLE] Race to the South Pole - Cri [PAR] Nov 14, 2007 ... In 1908 British explorer Ernest Shackleton, who had accompanied Scott on his ... 
In 1912 Australian scientist Douglas Mawson led the Australian Antarctic 
Expedition to explore the coast of East Antarctica directly south of Australia. ... 
Shackleton returned in 1915, intending to cross the continent from the... [DOC] [TLE] The Most Terrible Polar Exploration Ever: Douglas Mawson's ... [PAR] Jan 27, 2012 ... A century ago, Douglas Mawson saw his two companions die and found himself 
... march faced one year later by the Australian explorer Douglas Mawson. ... 
Falcon Scott's doomed expedition in order to lead the Australasian Antarctic ... 
Bay, an especially remote part of the Antarctic coast, in January 1912. [DOC] [TLE] adventure journal  Douglas Mawson, Antarctic Scientist and Explorer [PAR] Nov 7, 2012 ... Chris Turney is the author of 1912: The Year The World Discovered Antarctica, a 
new ... to be an entirely new continent, lying in the 'Australian quadrant. ... In late 
1911, the Australasian Antarctic Expedition headed south from the ... Mawson 
was to lead a three-man team called the Far Eastern Party, which... [DOC] [TLE] History | Mawson's Huts Replica Museum [PAR] The Australasian Antarctic Expedition under Douglas Mawson  the ... had 
started out from Australia in the 1890s, they had been financed and led from 
elsewhere. ... East Antarctica  the greater mass of the Antarctic continent that 
lies south of ... the islands named after him, sighted Antarctic coast south of 
Western Australia. [DOC] [TLE] Douglas Mawson: An Australian hero's story of survival - BBC News [PAR] Feb 18, 2014 ... One hundred years ago this week, Douglas Mawson returned home after two 
years of triumph and

Question: In 1912 Aussie explorer Douglas Mawson led an expedition south to explore the east coast of this continent
Answer: Antarctica