Sir Douglas Mawson is famous for exploring Antarctica and he grew up and studied geology at the University of Sydney. He is on the $100 note. Sir Douglas Mawson came from Yorkshire, England in 1884 with his family when he was 2 years old. His parents moved to Australia to move to a different country by boat.
Sir Douglas Mawson went to the university at Sydney at the age of 16 and graduated in engineering and science and got a job at the university of Adelaide lecturing in geology ( studying the origin and structure of rocks.) He later explored Antarctica, risking his life for Australia and led his own expedition, the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, to chart the 2000 mile long coastline of Antarctica to the south of Australia and the south pole.
Sir Douglas Mawson was on the $100 note for exploring Antarctica with the snow range in the backround. It is now changed but he was a brave explorer that he was on it.
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