BONUS - Includes Douglas Mawson: The Survivor documentary Surviving Extremes In 1911 Douglas Mawson sailed to the Antarctic. He travelled over the ice cap with dog-teams on a journey that ended in the tragic death of his two companions – and, remarkably, his own survival. In the 1990’s American astronauts lived aboard Russia’s Mir space station. They endured psychological isolation, the worst fire in space history and a collision with another spacecraft. Although almost a hundred years apart, the two journeys tell us a lot about the sort of personalities that will cope with future missions to Mars.Douglas Mawson: The Survivor A dramatised reconstruction of the tragic 1912 expedition of Professor Sir Douglas Mawson to Antarctica. Australia owes its claim to 40 per cent of Antarctic territory to Mawson, who died in 1958 at the age of 76. During the 1912 expedition, two of Mawson's team died, leaving a weak and ill Mawson to struggle alone back to a base camp at Commonwealth Bay. His feat is regarded as the greatest story of lone survival in the history of polar exploration.