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This Teachers' Guide accompanies Home of the Blizzard: An Antarctic Adventure, a digital interactive game developed by the NFSA using historic footage of Douglas Mawson's Antarctic Expedition of 1911 to 1914.

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Phillip Law (1912–2010) was born in Tallangatta, Victoria.

He showed early academic ability and, at the age of 16, became a teacher.

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Fig. 11: Macquarie Island, 1911 or 1912? ‘The Mawson Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911–1913, Version 2’ NFSA: 1356

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Photograph from Alan Campbell-Drury’s report, showing decomposition of the original AAE footage, c1960. NFSA internal document (TRIM: 98/01142)