In Photos: Mawson’s Antarctica Expedition

Ice-cased Adelie penguins after a blizzard at Cape Denison

Mawson had been part of Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic expedition between 1907 and 1909, which inspired him to mount his own journey from Australia.
Photograph: James Francis (Frank) Hurley/State Library of New South Wales

A group portrait from the expedition

Eighteen men established the main base at Cape Denison on Commonwealth Bay. Others set up smaller bases in the western Antarctic and on Macquarie Island.
Photograph: James Francis (Frank) Hurley/State Library of New South Wales

Blizzard, the pup in Antarctica

Islands, rocks and reefs in Antarctica have been named after 26 of the husky dogs taken on Mawson’s expedition.
Photograph: James Francis (Frank) Hurley/State Library of New South Wales