Douglas Mawson quotes

Douglas Mawson was an Australian geologist and Antarctic explorer who played a key role in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. His leadership during the Australasian Antarctic Expedition greatly contributed to geological and scientific discoveries in Antarctica. He is remembered as one of Australia’s greatest scientific pioneers and explorers. Here are 2 of his quotes:

If we ignore the facts contained in one part of the world, surely we are hampering scientific advance. (Douglas Mawson)

We had found an accursed country. On the fringe of an unspanned continent along whose gelid coast our comrades had made their home-we knew not where-we dwelt where the chill breath of a vast, Polar wilderness, quickening to the rushing might of eternal blizzards, surged to the northern seas.

Douglas Mawson