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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 665,916 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Douglas Mawson is the 228th most popular explorer (up from 339th in 2019), the 1,927th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,058th in 2019) and the 27th most popular British Explorer.

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  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.89

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  • 4.01

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Douglas Mawson ranks 228 out of 405. Before him are Julius Popper, Niccolò de' Conti, Nikolaus Federmann, Thorvald Asvaldsson, Pedro Arias Dávila, and Rodrigo de Bastidas. After him are Dinis Dias, Juan de Garay, Alexandrine Tinné, Edward Bransfield, Carl Anton Larsen, and John Byron.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Douglas Mawson ranks 117. Before him are Joseph Cardijn, Karl Rapp, Shigenori Tōgō, Kamo, Emma Jung, and Halil Kut. After him are Arnold Rothstein, Holland Smith, Leo White, Takenoshin Nakai, Geraldine Farrar, and Robert Hichens. Among people deceased in 1958, Douglas Mawson ranks 70. Before him are Grigory Petrovsky, Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria, Johnston McCulley, Ronald Colman, Isidora Sekulić, and Aleksander Klumberg. After him are Yutaka Taniyama, Varvara Stepanova, Princess Nadezhda of Bulgaria, Vítězslav Nezval, Robert Donat, and Henry Kuttner.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Douglas Mawson ranks 1,927 out of 7,765. Before him are Damon Albarn (1968), William Congreve (1670), Cuthbert (635), Arthur Young (1741), Eglantyne Jebb (1876), and Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1776). After him are Aelred of Rievaulx (1110), Josephine Butler (1828), Peter Yates (1929), Mary Astell (1666), John Badham (1939), and Martin Rees (1942).

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Among EXPLORERS In United Kingdom

Among explorers born in United Kingdom, Douglas Mawson ranks 27. Before him are Samuel Wallis (1728), Matthew Flinders (1774), James Bruce (1730), John Rolfe (1585), Mark Sykes (1879), and Lady Hester Stanhope (1776). After him are John Byron (1723), Samuel Baker (1821), William Parry (1790), Anthony Jenkinson (1529), Richard Chancellor (1521), and Francis Crozier (1796).

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