FINAL PHOTO

PRESENTATION!

I PRESENTED!!!!!!! Even though it went for one hour it seemed super quick. My props wre great, costume worked, speech went brilliant! YIPEE!! More info and photos should be on this blog soon.
NOTE: Unfortunately this is one of the final blogs for The Mawson Project. Oh well.

1 MORE DAY!

JOSHIE BOY 2 is presenting tonight! JUST 1 MORE DAY TILL I PRESENT!~ Yipee! Quick list of who's presenting on Tuesday:

• Ms. Caroline Chisholm
• Mr. Barry Humphries
• Dr. Victor Chang
• Mr. Ralph Sarich
• Rev. John Flynn
• Dr. Charlie Teo
• Rev. Bill Cruise
• Sir Douglas Mawson (me)
• Ms. Mary Mackillop
• Dame Nellie Melba
• Mr. Peter Weir
• Sir. Hubert Wilkins
• Dr. Peter Doherty
• Mrs. Evonne Goolagong-Cawley

COUNT DOWN!

Just 2 MORE DAYS TILL I PRESENT (1 until Joshieboy 2 does)! Fun Fact: At the age of five Mawson was fascinated at strange things and exploring places.

I CAN"T WAIT!

I just can't wait! 4 DAYS UNTIL I PRESENT! (3 days until joshieboy 2 presents) And then after I get to go to the Canada Bay Club! Joke: Mirror, Mirror on the wall, which is the best antartic explorer of them all? Douglas Mawson, of cause!(Apologies to Hubert Wilkins)

OTHER WEBSITE

I also have another web-site about budgies at www.budgiestotallyrule.blogspot.com. Thanks!

HOME OF THE BLIZZARD RETURNS

Hey, auction bidders! Guess how much original first edition copies of Home Of The Blizzard now sell for? Over $20,000,000! That's a lot!

FUN FACT

Fun Fact: When Mawson first started work in South Australia, Walter Howchin was the only geologist at The University of Adelaide. Howchin was making important and amazing discoveries of glaciated rocks near the city.
Mawson believed that he should not intrude on another geologist's area of study. So when he was appointed to the staff of the university he travelled from Adelaide to the Olary and Broken Hill areas for his first research project in South Australia.
This area was poorly understood, but contained one of the richest silver ore deposits in the world. Partly Extracted from www.mawson.sa.gov.au .

PLEASE CHECK THIS OUT!

Round up! Round up! Weary Dunlop (aka Joshieboy 2) has his own blog! View it at http://www.dunlopwork.blogspot.com/! Fun Fact: Douglas Mawson wrote a letter to his neighbour concerning the fencing around their back-yard in 1939!

FLOREY INFO

Sorry... There WILL BE 2 OTHER EMINENT AUSTRALIANS websites!

I'm presenting on Tuesday. Please check out the other Eminent Aus website at www.dunlopwork.blogspot.com!

We did a pratise run today, went great, feeling confident.

Please tell family and friends about this.. I want more people to view it.

MAWSON 08

Hi! Just to let you know there will only be 1 OTHER Emident Australians webpage MAYBE.
Fun Fact: Mawson's father, Robert Ellis Mawson was a cloth merchant from a farming background.

A HAPPY MARRIAGE

Mawson also had 2 daughters, Patrica Thomas and another one whose name I do not know. Mawson's wife died in 1974 aged 83.

HOME OF THE BLIZZARD REVISITED

Douglas Mawson wrote this book, Home Of The Blizzard in the 1910s, describing his experiences at Antartica during the 1911 Australian Antartic Expedition. It is an amazing, fascinating book- one of the best polar adventure stories you'll ever read. This 343- page book is a best seller and has been reprinted four times!

Fun Fact: Douglas Mawson married Francesca (Paquita) Delprat on 31 March 1914!

LOOK OUT FOR THIS!

In a week or two you can visit some other Emident Australians websites. I am currently teaching them how to create one.
Fun Fact: Mawson was 76 when he died.

SNEAK PEEK: BRIEF DESRIPTION OF CLOTHES & INFO

Fun Fact: In 1907 he joined Shackleton's Antartic Expedition. Together with three other men he was the first to climb the 3000 metres+ Mount Eruebus, not to mention that Mawson was the first man to step on the South Magnetic Pole! Four years earlier Mawson had gone on a expedition to Vanuatu and published a great deal of papers on it.
Only kidding about the sneak peek.. you'll see it on the night!

FLOREY UPDATES & INFO

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Fun Fact: He was privately educated by his father at Rooty Hill. It is thought he moved to Sydney at the age of 12 and was educated at Fort Street High School(1). At the age of sixteen he was enrolled at The University Of Adelaide.

Forgot to mention that I have to wear 2 JACKETS!

FLOREY UPDATES

Going fine on the Florey project. Have created or borrowed props, practising speech etc. I can't wait!
Please note that major updates are not available currently yet.
Fun Fact: Douglas Mawson was born in Yorkshire, England. At the age of two he and his family moved to Rooty Hill Australia. He was fascinated by strange things and exploring places.