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Happy 125th birthday, Sir Douglas Mawson, explorer, scientist, and educator. He was born on May 5 in Yorkshire, was a pioneer of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, and now graces the Australian $100 bill. He died in 1958.

The 1914 portrait below was one on which I based Mawson, an irascible talking stone bust from the Books of the Change/Cataclysm. Although my Mawson's character bears no relation to the real Mawson, I nonetheless intended it as a kind of tribute, since the great man spent a lot of time in the Flinders Ranges, one of my favourite places in the whole world. I hope he wouldn't mind.

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