In Photos: Mawson’s Antarctica Expedition

Ice mask, C.T. Madigan

Cecil Madigan was a meteorologist whose work laid the foundation for Antarctic weather research.
Photograph: James Francis (Frank) Hurley/State Library of New South Wales

A Sclater penguin

Photographer Frank Hurley began his Antarctic career by persuading Mawson to employ him as official photographer on the expedition. His pictures from this trip and, even more famously, Shackleton’s ill-fated Trans-Antarctic expedition of 1914-16, made him the most renowned polar photographer ever.
Photograph: James Francis (Frank) Hurley/State Library of New South Wales

Cavern carved by the sea in an ice wall near Commonwealth Bay

During Mawson’s expedition, Hurley took part in a record-breaking sledging journey to the South Magnetic Pole.
Photograph: James Francis (Frank) Hurley/State Library of New South Wales