Team to go to Antarctica to preserve Mawson s historic huts

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

AAP General News (Australia)
12-15-2000
Team to go to Antarctica to preserve Mawson s historic huts

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

The eight-person AAP 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 ...

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