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AAP General News (Australia)

12-16-2000

Team to go to Antarctica to preserve Mawson s historic huts

An expedition to one of Antarctica's most hostile places is set to leave Hobart today
to finish urgent conservation work on Sir DOUGLAS MAWSON'S historic huts.

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

They will work to ensure the iconic 9...

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