Editing Douglas Mawson (section)

== ''Nimrod'' Expedition (or British Antarctic Expedition) ==
[[File:MawsonMcKayDavid.jpg|thumb|left| Mackay, David and Mawson raise the flag at the [[South magnetic pole]] on 16 January 1909]]
Mawson joined [[Ernest Shackleton]]'s [[Nimrod Expedition|''Nimrod'' Expedition]] (1907–1909) to the Antarctic, originally intending to stay for the duration of the ship's presence in the first summer. Instead both he and his mentor, [[Edgeworth David]], stayed an extra year. In doing so they became, in the company of [[Alistair Mackay]], the first to climb the summit of [[Mount Erebus]] and to trek to the [[South magnetic pole]], which at that time was over land.

During their stay, they also wrote, illustrated and printed the book ''[[Aurora Australis (book)|Aurora Australis]]''. Mawson contributed with the science fiction short-story Bathybia.<ref>[https://guides.slsa.sa.gov.au/Mawson Douglas Mawson: Home - Library Guides]</ref><ref>[https://archive.org/details/AuroraAustralis00EHSh/page/n180/mode/1up?view=theater Aurora Australis – Bathybia]</ref>