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    Polar adventure

    Jul 03, 2019 5 minutes

    Step back in time and visit Mawson’s Hut, a frozen capsule of how daily life was for a polar adventurer during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.

    SIR DOUGLAS MAWSON was one of the 20th-century’s most renowned polar explorers. Visiting the immaculately preserved huts that served as headquarters for the 1911–14 Australasian Antarctic Expedition to explore one of the most wild and remote locations anywhere on Earth has got to be on the bucket list of anyone who yearns for their own epic adventure. So it’s great to be able to travel there with one of the most experienced expedition cruise companies, Heritage Expeditions, which returns to Antarctica again during the 2019–20 season. Mawson’s Hut is at Cape Denison on Commonwealth Bay, which has historically been one of

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