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Robert Falcon Scott was born to John and Hannah Scott in Outlands, Plymouth, England.
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Douglas Mawson was born in Yorkshire, England but moved to Australia slightly after his birth.
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Scott boarded his first sea going vessle, he served as a shipman for 2 years. He earned about 30 pounds a year.
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Scott met Clements Markham who told him about the planned Antarctica Expedition. Two days later he wrote applying to command it, he had no real urge to experience the ice, cold or adventure. The only reaseon he had applied was because he had grown restless in the navy,
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After putting in his application to become the commander, Scott went off on the HMS Majestic for almost a year before he recieved conformation of his role.
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With much fanfare, Scott's Discovery Expedition was aunder way. Stopping briefly to correct it's compass it was off to Cape Town and then to Lyttleton, New Zealand before enbarcing apon their final leg of the trip to Antarctica.
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After studying Mining Engineering for two years at Sydney University, Mawson graduated and he was appointed as the head of the junior chemistry department.
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After years of successful scientific research and exploration, the Discovery finally reached home after getting stuck in ice and having to be repared for two months in New Zealand.
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Mawson was appointed as a lecturer of minerology and petrology at the University of Adelaide. It was here that he became interested in the glacial geology of South Australia, spurring his interest in Antarctica.
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Ernest Shackleton's British Antarctic Expedition (Nimrod Expedition for short) had signed Edgeworth David, a former lecturer of Mawson's sugested him for the expedition.
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With his partner Mackay, Mawson was the first ever person to reach the 1909 South Magnetic Pole.
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Shackleton arrived in London on the Nimrod at this date, no official date has been stated for when Mawson himself arrived back in Adelaide. After his return, Mawson returned to his work at the University.
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After marrying and having a child, his only son Peter Scott. Scott decided to go on another expedition. This was names The Terra Nova expedition and went to Cape Town, Melbourne and New Zealand before reaching Antarctice.
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Mawson first asked Scott whether he was able to take three men down to Antarctica on the Terra Nova, they were unable to do so. Scott asked Mawson to join the Terra Nova Expedition, Mawson declined as he was more interested in scientific exploration.
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It is registered that at 6:30pm Scott and his explorers reached the South Pole for the first time.
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After Scott, Bowers, Wilson, Evans and Oates were found dead by a search party on the 12th of November 1912 it finally reached London and their families the next year. They are thought to have died sometime around the 29th March 1912.
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On a trip to the far east of antarctica, one of the men on the expedition went missing on a sled down a crevise. After this, Mawson and his companion struggled to stay alive and ended up eating their dogs. Mertz died and by the time Mawson got back to the main base the boat had been and gone. Mawson and a small search team were stranded in Antarctica for a year longer than planned.
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Mawson was knighted in 1914 for his efforts on the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, he then applied to join the army and serve in a scientific capacity. He served for the country until the end of the war.
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Mawson passed away after a cerebral haemorrhage in his home in South Australia. Between the war and his death Mawson returned to his employment at the Adelaide University.
