03.01.2014 - 12:07 [ National Geographic ]

Modern Explorers Follow the Century-Old Antarctic Footsteps of Douglas Mawson

(17.12) Last week, a 36-person team led by Chris Turney, an Australian adventurer and climate scientist, set out from New Zealand to retrace the historic journey of a scientific expedition to Antarctica that took place a century ago. The Australasian Antarctic Expedition 2013-2014 aims to find the hut of Douglas Mawson, leader of the original Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE), to repeat many of the original team‘s observations and, time willing, to locate the South Magnetic Pole, one of the goals of Mawson‘s expedition.