Podcasts about australasian antarctic expedition

Douglas Mawson wasn't just a survivor—he was a scientific powerhouse who helped put Australia on the map of polar exploration. His adventures began with the 1907–1909 Nimrod Expedition under Ernest Shackleton, during which he became one of the first to reach the Magnetic South Pole and climb Mount Erebus. But it was his own Australasian Antarctic Expedition from 1911 to 1914 that sealed his place in history.Mawson's leadership, grit, and heartbreak defined that journey. Stranded alone after the deaths of his companions, he hauled himself across 160 kilometres of ice, surviving crevasses, starvation, and the brutal cold. His story isn't just about endurance—it's about the pursuit of knowledge at the edge of the world.Join Holly & Matthew as they explore the trials, triumphs, and enduring legacy of Douglas Mawson—Australia's Antarctic hero.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/weird-crap-in-australia--2968350/support.

Brace yourself for the cold this week as we head to the coldest place on Earth: Antarctica. Our first stop in Antarctica is to see Blood Falls, a red-colored waterfall. Next, we stroll through homes that were constructed as part of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911-1914, known as Mawson's Huts. Lastly, we send a postcard from the only post office located in Antarctica. Welcome to season 5!

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join us as Dr Alessandro Antonello from Flinders University discusses his research on Antarctica set against the backdrop of a series of new acquisitions on display in Gallery 8. This talk will be held in the Radford Auditorium. For more information please visit agsa.sa.gov.au Image: Frank Hurley, Australia, 1885 - 1962, A blizzard, from the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911–14, 1912, Cape Denison, blue-toned carbon print, 35.1 x 41.7 cm (image); Gift of Joan Beer, William J.S Boyle C.M, Peter and Sandra Dobson, Gwinnett Family, Roger Lang, Shane Le Plastrier, The Hon Justice Mark Livesey, David McKee AO and Pam McKee, Peter and Pamela McKee, Dick Whitington QC and Peter Wilson through the Art Gallery of South Australia Foundation Collectors Club 2019, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.

Elizabeth Leane talks about Sidney Jeffryes, radio operator for Douglas Mawson’s Australasian Antarctic Expedition in 1913. Jeffryes’ struggle with mental illness challenged Mawson’s expedition party as well as the way Mawson tried to present his expedition to audiences back home. Leane is a professor of English at the University of Tasmania and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow. She’s also the co-author (along with Ben Maddison and Kimberley Norris) of “Beyond the Heroic Stereotype: Sidney Jeffryes and the Mythologising of Australian Antarctic History.”

Elizabeth Leane talks about Sidney Jeffryes, radio operator for Douglas Mawson’s Australasian Antarctic Expedition in 1913. Jeffryes’ struggle with mental illness challenged Mawson’s expedition party as well as the way Mawson tried to present his expedition to audiences back home. Leane is a professor of English at the University of Tasmania and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow. She’s also the co-author (along with Ben Maddison and Kimberley Norris) of “Beyond the Heroic Stereotype: Sidney Jeffryes and the Mythologising of Australian Antarctic History.”

Douglas Mawson’s Australasian Antarctic Expedition concluded, and the last of the expeditioners arrived back in Adelaide in February, 1914.  A lot had happened, both on the frozen continent and across the world, in the years they had been away.  We wrap up the “Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration” in this episode, by reflecting on the AAE, on Mawson’s ongoing relationship with the Antarctic, and Australia’s connection to Antarctica.  We’ll also just touch on the outcome of Scott and Amundsen’s attempts on the pole, which took place while Mawson was in the Antarctic, and just for interest, also discuss Shackleton’s return journey, which pretty much brought the Age to a close. (54 Mins)  www.australianhistoriespodcast.com.au Brilliant stories from Australia’s past! Help support the show

After returning from Shackleton’s Nimrod Expedition and despite rejecting any idea of returning to Antarctica, the trauma of his polar trekking faded and Douglas Mawson began to consider all the exploration & discovery that still lay waiting there.  He set about planning the “Australasian Antarctic Expedition”, to undertake an ambitious scientific & survey program for Australia & the Empire.  This time though, the harsh elements would extract a greater cost for giving up it’s secrets. (51 Mins)   www.australianhistoriespodcast.com.au Brilliant stories from Australia’s past! AHP Facebook                         AusHistPod Twitter    australianhistoriespodcast Instagram   

Douglas Mawson, who would later become the leader of Australia’s first Antarctic expedition, undertook his first trip to Antarctica as part of Ernest Shackleton’s “Nimrod Expedition”,  1908.  Though he was young and this was his first foray in to the icy territory, his obvious intelligence, robust constitution and leadership skills, marked him out early for momentous work, and he was tasked with joining teams to explore Mt Erebus and to locate the Magnetic South Pole. The following episode will then focus on Mawson’s leadership of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition itself. (52 Mins)   www.australianhistoriespodcast.com.au Brilliant stories from Australia’s past! AHP Facebook                         AusHistPod Twitter    australianhistoriespodcast Instagram     

Australia’s first formal expedition to Antarctica in 1911, the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was led by Douglas Mawson, a geologist from Adelaide University.  This episode we’ll look at what brought Mawson to the Antarctic, and at the earlier British expeditions that helped scaffold Mawson’s later venture.  The following episodes will focus on Mawson’s first trip South with Shackleton and then look in detail at the Australasian Antarctic Expedition itself. (50 Mins)   www.australianhistoriespodcast.com.au Brilliant stories from Australia’s past! AHP Facebook                         AusHistPod Twitter    australianhistoriespodcast Instagram   

I've got a few tidbits left to add about the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, and Mawson will be back in the narrative before you know it, but this ties up some loose ends and resolves the cliff hanger from the end of episode 050.

Join us in part three of our visit to Hobart Tasmania visit with Rod Ledingham as we dive deeper into our story taking a tour of the Mawsons Huts Replica Museum. Mawson's Huts Replica Museum is rated by trip advisor as the best museum in Hobart being ranked as No 1 out of 15 museums  It has attracted over 100000 visitors in its first two years of operation and continues to set new attendance records with visitors from all over Australia and overseas. Situated on, the citys beautiful waterfront it is just 50 metres from Constitution Dock and opposite Mawson's Place. It was opened on Monday December 2 2013 which was the 102nd anniversary of the departure from Hobart of the Australasian Antarctic expedition 1911 to 14 which Douglas Mawson led. The MISSION  To develop the Mawson's Huts Replica Museum as a boutique world class museum that: provides visitors with the opportunity to learn and understand the history and achievements of the men of the 1911 to 14 Australasian Antarctic Expedition led by Douglas Mawson; helps promote awareness of Australia's involvement in the Antarctic and highlights Hobart as the gateway to the Antarctic continent for the Asia Pacific region Planning Your Visit Make the most of the stunning scenery, waterfront vibe, cafes and restaurants when you plan your visit to our Replica Museum. Located in the centre of Hobart, we are within a few minutes walk of most major accommodation and conference venues. Find more details before your next visit to Hobart Tasmania  

Join us in part two of our visit to Hobart, Tasmania visit with Rod Ledingham as we dive deeper into our story taking a tour of the Mawson's Huts Replica Museum. Mawson's Huts Replica Museum is rated by trip advisor as the best museum in Hobart being ranked as No 1 out of 15 museums.  It has attracted over 100,000 visitors in its first two years of operation and continues to set new attendance records with visitors from all over Australia and overseas. Situated on, the city's beautiful waterfront it is just 50 metres from Constitution Dock and opposite Mawson's Place. It was opened on Monday Deceember 2 2013 which was the 102nd anniversary of the departure from Hobart of the Australasian Antarctic expedition 1911-14 which Douglas Mawson led. The MISSION  To develop the Mawson's Huts Replica Museum as a boutique world class museum that: provides visitors with the opportunity to learn and understand the history and achievements of the men of the 1911-14 Australasian Antarctic Expedition led by Douglas Mawson; helps promote awareness of Australia's involvement in the Antarctic; and highlights Hobart as the gateway to the Antarctic continent for the Asia Pacific region. Planning Your Visit Make the most of the stunning scenery, waterfront vibe, cafes and restaurants when you plan your visit to our Replica Museum. Located in the centre of Hobart, we are within a few minutes walk of most major accommodation and conference venues.  

Mawson's Huts Replica Museum is rated by trip advisor as the best museum in Hobart being ranked as No 1 out of 15 museums.  It has attracted over 100,000 visitors in its first two years of operation and continues to set new attendance records with visitors from all over Australia and overseas. Situated on, the city's beautiful waterfront it is just 50 metres from Constitution Dock and opposite Mawson's Place. It was opened on Monday Deceember 2 2013 which was the 102nd anniversary of the departure from Hobart of the Australasian Antarctic expedition 1911-14 which Douglas Mawson led. The MISSION  To develop the Mawson's Huts Replica Museum as a boutique world class museum that: provides visitors with the opportunity to learn and understand the history and achievements of the men of the 1911-14 Australasian Antarctic Expedition led by Douglas Mawson; helps promote awareness of Australia's involvement in the Antarctic; and highlights Hobart as the gateway to the Antarctic continent for the Asia Pacific region. Planning Your Visit Make the most of the stunning scenery, waterfront vibe, cafes and restaurants when you plan your visit to our Replica Museum. Located in the centre of Hobart, we are within a few minutes walk of most major accommodation and conference venues.      

The Australasian Antarctic Expedition has been retracing the steps of the first expedition to East Antarctica, a century ago. Its leader was Douglas Mawson, one of the great figures of the heroic age of exploration of the frozen continent. In the last of the programmes from the Antarctic, Andrew Luck-Baker reports on the 10 days the scientists, tourists and crew of the ship, the Academik Shokalskiy, spent locked in the ice and their eventual release via helicopters from a Chinese ice breaker to an Australian vessel.

Alok Jha and Andrew Luck-Baker continue to follow the scientists on the ongoing Australasian Antarctic Expedition 2013. They go out on fieldwork trips with the researchers studying how the wildlife that lives in this inhospitable environment is responding to climate change. Zoologist Tracy Rogers searches for leopard seals with underwater microphones. From a safe distance she takes a small sample from a Weddell seal to find out what it's been eating. Ornithologist Kerry-Jayne Wilson discovers that an iconic breeding colony of Adelie penguins at Cape Denison, the rocky area where Douglas Mawson built his expedition hut, has depleted numbers as the fast ice has grown. Producer: Andrew Luck-BakerImage: Ice-blocked bow of the Shokalskiy and expedition doctor Andrew Peacock

Alok Jha and Andrew Luck-Baker continue to follow the scientists on the ongoing Australasian Antarctic Expedition 2013. Ice, the oceans and climate change are the themes this week as one of the expedition scientists makes a troubling finding. Moored in Commonwealth Bay in East Antarctic, the expedition's oceanographer Erik van Sibble discovers a stunning difference in the nature of the water beneath the sea ice. Although it is a preliminary finding, the consequences for the motions of the world's oceans and climate change could be dramatic. With thanks to AAE volunteer scientist Terry Gostlow for sound recording assistance.

Antibacterial soaps and body washes make up an industry worth millions of pounds, but in the USA, producers have been told that they have just over a year to prove their products are safe, or, re-label or reformulate them. Many believe that using antimicrobial soaps, which often include the chemicals triclosan or triclocarban, keeps you clean and reduces the chance of getting ill or passing on germs to others. But the Food and Drug Administration in the USA says it's the job of manufacturers to demonstrate the benefits, to balance any potential risks. Professor Jodi Lindsay, expert in microbial pathogenesis from St Georges, University of London, tells Dr Adam Rutherford where this leaves British and European consumers.The world's most powerful satellite camera was launched today into space. Its mission, to map the billion stars in our galaxy. Professor Gerry Gilmore, Principal Investigator for GAIA, tells Inside Science about the planned "walk through the Milky Way" and BBC Science Correspondent, Jonathan Amos, spells out how GAIA could help detect future asteroids, like the one that wiped out the dinosaurs on earth.Just after the Second World War in a site in North Yorkshire, the discovery of a flint blade triggered the discovery of one of the world's most important Mesolithic or Stone Age sites. What makes Star Carr so special is that organic artefacts, bone harpoons, deer headdresses and even homesteads, were preserved in the peat 11000 years ago. But these precious artefacts are in trouble. Changing acidic conditions are turning the Mesolithic remains to jelly. Sue Nelson reports from the Vale of Pickering on how archaeologists are working with chemists to try to pinpoint exactly why the Stone Age remains are deteriorating so quickly.And Professor Chris Turney talks to Adam from his research ship in Commonwealth Bay in the Antarctic, where he is leading a team of scientists to recreate the journey made by Douglas Mawson, 100 years ago, on the Australasian Antarctic Expedition.Producer: Fiona Hill.

Join the scientists of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 2013, as they go about their experiments and seek adventure at the windiest place on earth.This location was named the Land of Blizzard by Douglas Mawson, the Antarctic pioneer who was the first to explore this remote and desolate place 100 years ago.Between 1911 and 1914, Douglas Mawson explored a fiercely harsh part of Antarctica while the more celebrated Scott and Amundsen raced to the South Pole, elsewhere on the frozen continent. Mawson's expedition was dedicated to scientific study in the early Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration but his journey was fraught with horror and danger. The 2013 Australasian Antarctic Expedition aims to repeat many of Mawson's investigations around Commonwealth Bay and Cape Denison in East Antarctica where the original team set up their base. This remote area hasn't been studied systematically for 100 years, so the expedition will reveal any changes that have taken place as a result of climate change.

Badger culls in England have ended and Professor Roland Kao from the University of Glasgow discusses with Dr Adam Rutherford the scientific options remaining to tackle the spread of bovine tuberculosis. Field trials of the TB cattle vaccine are due to start next year and Professor Kao hopes that their success in sequencing the genome of Mycobactrium bovis will also provide a greater understanding about how this devastating disease spreads. The name of Douglas Mawson isn't discussed along with the famous triumvirate, Scott, Amundsen and Shackleton, but one hundred years ago, he led the first science-only Australasian Antarctic Expedition. A century later, Professor Chris Turney is co-leading a repeat expedition, where scientists will repeat many of the measurements of the Mawson trip.Rising inflexion at the end of your sentences is known as "uptalk" or "valleygirl speak" and it's usually associated with young Californian females. But now a new study shows that uptalk is expanding to men. Professor Amalia Arvaniti explains that uptalk has negative connotations which makes men less likely to admit to using it, but it was clear was that this pattern of speech is like totally spreading.Waste plastic makes its way into many areas of the environment which can threaten wildlife. Small particles of plastic can also be ingested by organisms and as they act almost like sponges the plastics attract other chemicals onto their surface. Despite this their hazard ranking is the same as scraps of food or grass clippings. Dr Mark Browne from the National Centre for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, USA, describes his new research in the journal, Current Biology, which shows that these microplastics have toxic concentrations of pollutants in which can harm biodiversity. He also explains how these microplastics transfer toxic pollutants and chemicals into the guts of lugworms. These worms have been nicknamed "eco-engineers" because they eat organic matter from the sediment and prevent the build-up of silt.Producer: Fiona Hill.