Fed: Mawson food store found in Antarctic

AAP General News (Australia) | December 31, 2008 | Copyright

AAP General News (Australia)
12-31-2008
Fed: Mawson food store found in Antarctic

MELBOURNE, Dec 31 AAP - A cache of food left by the 1911-14 Antarctic expedition led
by explorer Sir Douglas Mawson has been found after almost a century in polar cold storage.

The cache of flour and pemmican in calico bags and a tin was located this week at Madigan
Nunatak, an exposed rocky peak surrounded by ice about 70km east-south-east of Cape Denison.

The nunatak is named after Cecil Madigan, a geologist with Mawson's Australasian Antarctic
Expedition (AAE) who established the food store in case of ...

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