Thursday, January 28, 2010

Douglas Mawson's Sled Plane



Douglas Mawson was an Australian polar explorer.

In 1912 Mr. Mawson took a plane to Antarctica but it had no wings. He wanted it to be like a sled with an engine. He would use it to drag supplies for explorers.

Antarctica is very cold, too cold for an engine to last long. The plane quit working. Mr. Mawson left it behind.

The sled plane got buried in ice. People thought it got washed into the ocean.

Australian researchers recently found the sled plane. It is still under ice. They can only see a little bit of it though.

The sled plane is still in the place he left it almost 100 years ago!




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Source: God's World News
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