A plunge into the writhing storm-whirl stamps upon the senses an indelible and awful impression seldom equalled in the whole gamut of natural experience. The world a void: grisly, fierce and appalling. We stumble and struggle through the Stygian gloom; the merciless blast - an incubus of vengeance - stabs, buffets and freezes; the stinging drift blinds and chokes."
Douglas Mawson: An Australian hero's story of survival
One hundred years ago this week, Douglas Mawson returned home after two years of triumph and terror in East Antarctica.
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