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Douglas Mawson is born is Shipley, West Yorkshire, England
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The Mawson family migrates from England to Rooty Hill, near Sydney in New South Wales
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The Mawson family moves to Glebe, Sydney.
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Having completed school Douglas begins studing geology and mining engineering at the Univerity of sydney
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Douglas joins an exibition to the new Hebrides and produces a major geological report
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Douglas becomes a lecturer at the University of Adelaide and reasearches rock formations
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In Broken Hill Douglas meets G.D. Delprat, the general managre of BHP, and is introduced to his daughter, whom Douglas later marries
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douglas is appointed team physicist to Ernest Shackleton's exebition to the South Pole