Tas: Expedition tomorrow to restore Mawson s huts in Antarctic

From: AAP General News (Australia) | Date: December 15, 2000 | Copyright information


AAP General News (Australia)

12-15-2000

Tas: Expedition tomorrow to restore Mawson s huts in Antarctic

By David Killick

HOBART, Dec 15 AAP - An expedition to one of Antarctica's most hostile places leaves
Hobart tomorrow to complete urgent conservation work on Sir Douglas Mawson's historic
huts.

The eight-member AAP Mawson's Huts Foundation team is expected to spend three weeks
at Cape Denison, 2,500 kilometres south of Ho...

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