2012 $1 Sir Douglas Mawson PNC Gold - 0.5g Proof In expressing the theme through

In expressing the theme through her own distinctive style

The Royal Australian Mint’s fourth full-colour coin type to be struck for circulation

The coin’s reverse inscription LACHLAN MACQUARIE GOVERNOR OF NSW 1810-1821 is accompanied by his portrait and images of the ‘Rum’ Hospital and a holey dollar and dump

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which was a whopping 16 to 20 metres long

2012 $1 Sir Douglas Mawson PNC Gold - 0.5g Proof In expressing the theme throughA mining engineer by training, Douglas Mawson first journeyed to the Antarctic as a member of Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1907 09 British Antarctic Expedition. On this expedition, Mawson, fellow Australian scientist Tannatt William Edgeworth David, and English doctor Alistair Mackay were the first men to reach the South Magnetic Pole after sledging a record 2,000 kilometres in 122 days. The 1911 14 Australasian Antarctic Expedition was planned by Mawson