Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Douglas Mawson

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Australian geologist Douglas Mawson.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Douglas Mawson

Sir Douglas Mawson OBE FRS FAA was an Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer, and academic. Along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Sir Ernest Shackleton, he was a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.

It's dead easy to die; it's the keeping on living that's hard. — © Douglas Mawson
It's dead easy to die; it's the keeping on living that's hard.
In no department can a leader spend time more profitably than in the selection of the men who are to accomplish the work.
Dangling in space I realised I could always slip out of the harness. I looked forward to the peace of the great release.
We had discovered an accursed country. We had found the Home of the Blizzard.
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