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 .