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unusual landscape.
                              Attributes: The whole of the station, in particular the planning, layout and design of the buildings and their setting in the polar landscape.
F  Technical achievement      Mawson Station retains the most complete surviving collection of buildings demonstrating the evolution of Antarctic building design used by Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE). These buildings demonstrate experimentation with different construction methods, cladding materials and foundation systems and innovation to deal with polar conditions. These designs are now entirely superseded by the modern Australian Antarctic Building System (AANBUS) modular system.
                              Attributes: The surviving collection of buildings used by ANARE.
H  Significant people         The establishment and early operations of the station were closely associated with several people of significance in Australia's Antarctic history, whose associations are reflected in planning and design decisions preserved in the surviving buildings. These include Phillip Law, John Béchervaise and Robert Dovers. The Station was named by Law after Sir Douglas Mawson.
                              Attributes: The planning, layout and design of the buildings.

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Mawson Station, established in 1954, is the oldest continuously occupied scientific station in Antarctica and the first permanent station south of the Antarctic Circle. It was Australia's first continental station, reflecting the post-World War Two revival of Australia's scientific research and territorial interests in Antarctica (Criterion A.4).
The establishment and early operations of the station were closely associated with several people of significance in Australia's Antarctic history, whose associations are reflected in planning and design decisions preserved in the surviving buildings. These include Phillip Law, John Béchervaise and Robert Dovers. The Station was named by Law after Sir Douglas Mawson (Criterion H.1).
Mawson Station retains the most complete surviving collection of buildings demonstrating the evolution of Antarctic building design used by Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE). These buildings demonstrate experimentation with different construction methods, cladding materials and foundation systems and innovation to deal with polar conditions. These designs are now entirely superseded by the modern Australian Antarctic Building System (AANBUS) modular system (Criterion F.1).
The Mawson Station building collection, a remnant of its former village layout, is an intact representation of the characteristics of Antarctic stations and the way of life of expeditioners, as they existed for the first forty years of Australia's permanent involvement on the continent (Criterion D.2).
The modern stations are entirely different in their scale, planning and construction and the lifestyle of expeditioners has changed dramatically. The original station design and lifestyle are no longer practiced and the demonstration of them to the degree seen in the Mawson buildings and landscape is now very rare (Criterion B.2).
The village arrangement of Mawson Station's old buildings backed by the newer station and the more distant views of