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Australia’s Antarctic Mawson Station 1954 founding team has one surviving member — 100-year-old John Russell
In a quiet suburban street north of Brisbane is a hidden treasure trove of Australia’s Antarctic history, in the form of 100-year-old John Russell.
Key points:
- John Russell is the last living member of a 10-man team that built Mawson Station in Antarctica in 1954
- The station is now Australia’s longest permanently manned station south of the Antarctic Circle
- John lives in Deception Bay, cared for by his daughter Sue
A former engineer, John is the last surviving member of a 10-man team who first established Mawson Station in 1954, huddled on exposed rock, surrounded by ice — the longest permanently operating station south of the Antarctic Circle.
His life is inextricably linked with the ice floes and cold rock of Antarctica, and after a…
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