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Douglas Mawson

1882 - 1958

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Sir Douglas Mawson (5 May 1882 – 14 October 1958) was a British-born 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. Mawson was born in England and was brought to Australia as an infant. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Douglas Mawson has received more than 705,287 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Douglas Mawson is the 289th most popular explorer (down from 227th in 2019), the 2,285th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,922nd in 2019) and the 33rd most popular British Explorer.

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.46

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  • 4.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Douglas Mawson ranks 289 out of 498. Before him are Ada Blackjack, Wilfred Thesiger, Otto Finsch, Freya Stark, Aleksei Chirikov, and Henricus Martellus Germanus. After him are Afonso Gonçalves Baldaia, Eusebio Kino, Edward Wilson, Robert Hermann Schomburgk, Lourenço Marques, and Semyon Chelyuskin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Douglas Mawson ranks 139. Before him are Holland Smith, Nicolae Titulescu, José Vasconcelos, Geraldine Farrar, Kazimierz Bartel, and Arnold Rothstein. After him are Takenoshin Nakai, Otto Ruge, Federico Chávez, Yakov Perelman, Maurice Peeters, and Monteiro Lobato. Among people deceased in 1958, Douglas Mawson ranks 84. Before him are Varvara Stepanova, Marie Stopes, Salama Moussa, Yutaka Taniyama, Ronald Colman, and Vittorio Ambrosio. After him are Henry Kuttner, Isidora Sekulić, Cândido Rondon, Evgeny Schwartz, Bart van der Leck, and Max Jakob Friedländer.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Douglas Mawson ranks 2,285 out of 8,785. Before him are James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray (1531), Andrew Birkin (1945), Michael Halliday (1925), Allan Holdsworth (1946), Charles Gray (1928), and Marjorie Bruce (1297). After him are Gregor MacGregor (1786), Peter J. Ratcliffe (1954), John Haigh (1909), Noel Redding (1945), Richard Johnson (1927), and John Taverner (1490).

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Among EXPLORERS In United Kingdom

Among explorers born in United Kingdom, Douglas Mawson ranks 33. Before him are John Ross (1777), Lady Hester Stanhope (1776), William Smith (1790), Anthony Jenkinson (1529), Humphrey Gilbert (1539), and Richard Chancellor (1521). After him are Edward Wilson (1872), Alexander Gordon Laing (1794), Alexander Dalrymple (1737), Francis Crozier (1796), John Biscoe (1794), and John Byron (1723).

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