In Photos: Mawson’s Antarctica Expedition

Wild and Watson in a sleeping bag tent on sledge journey

Frank Wild, like Mawson originally from Yorkshire, led the western base party. Geologist Andrew Watson was a student at the University of Sydney.
Photograph: James Francis (Frank) Hurley/State Library of New South Wales

Unloading supplies at Cape Denison

The team found a rocky area about a mile long and no more than half a mile wide, where they could safely establish the main base.
Photograph: James Francis (Frank) Hurley/State Library of New South Wales

Bage in the entrance to the Astronomic Observatory

Astronomer Edward Bage was among the researchers who did valuable work in the Antarctic. Information brought back by Mawson’s men made a major contribution to knowledge of the region.
Photograph: James Francis (Frank) Hurley/State Library of New South Wales