The print on the map below is tiny but you can see Mawson at about 2:00 below, on the coast just "under" 45 deg. E. Longitude, east of the "prime meridian", the meridians being the longitude lines. It's important to know where Australia is as well. Notice that the entire "east side" from 2:00 to 5:00 is labelled "Australian Claim", so Australia must be just outside of that area.
The next map is unique-- I've never seen this projection before. It clearly shows the meridians (lines of longitude) that project from Australia into Antarctica's Australian Claim. Note that Mawson Station is at the far East side of the claim, that Davis and Casey are also Australian stations and that "Commonwealth Bay" would define the Western station belonging to Australia. That's a very long stretch of the Antarctica coastline and Australia has one of the most extensive Antarctic government agencies on Earth. It should be relatively easily to get flights or ocean boat trips from Mawson to Commonwealth Bay to measure the TRUE length of that coast or distance-- vs. what they're telling us or what the Spheroid Longtitude Calculations tell us.
- Now let's take a look at Mawson from the point of view of my best flat earth map. The map is rotated so study it for a few minutes to get your orientation relative to, say, the Antarctic Peninsula which juts out noticeably... and Australia.
- Note Mawson is at about 2:00 as well on this map but that Australia is smaller and toward the "left" on the map, or at about 10:00.
- Note Australia's Claim from about Casey (11:00) to Mawson (2:00) with Davis in between.
- Note that the "official South Pole" is going to be to the left and upper left of Scott/McMurdo even though I forgot to put it on this map. The official South Pole is roughly where the label "Earth Pond One" is on the map below.
- Note where the official South Pole is with respect to Mawson.
We're about to land at Mawson Station on the RumDoodle blue ice runway in a Twin Otter-- I think to deliver fuel drums.
I'm not impressed by the Niburu videos that have exploded on Youtube when you search for Mawson Stations. The bright dots look like lens artifacts of an over exposed moon or other things. It's too bad Mawson video searches give us this now. At this point, I'm only interested in gaining flight, time and distance data from station to station to verify or deny the 60,000 mile circumference of a "rim Antarctica" as opposed to an "island Antarctica" of 15,000 miles or less.
I started this post with nothing on Mawson and will try posting my finds in real time here, indexed under Mawson Station 1 - Introduction in the index below. Here's the initial Google search with a few results of interest.
mawson station - Google Search
Mawson station — Australian Antarctic Division
www.antarctica.gov.au/living-and-working/stations/mawson
Dec 12, 2014 ... Mawson station. Location: 67° 36′ 10″ S, 62° 52′ 26″ E (−67.6027° S,62.8738° E). Mawson is situated on an isolated outcrop of rock on ...Living at Mawson — Australian Antarctic Division
www.antarctica.gov.au/living-and-working/stations/mawson/living
The longest continuously operated station in Antarctica, Mawson was established in 1954. It was named after Australia's most significant Antarctic explorer, ...Mawson Station - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mawson_Station
Mawson Station is one of three permanent Australian bases in the Australian Antarctic Territory of East Antarctica. Named after Antarctic explorer Sir Douglas ...
Note where RUMDOODLE blue ice runay is with respect to Mawson Station. We'll be landing there, virtually, below.
I didn't know that theree islands out in front of Mawson and the Mawson is surround by an ice wall, according to the following map.
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Amazingly, Mawson Station is like a university campus with an extensive layout.
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Same source as link above
Travel time from Mawson to Rothera.
The GREEN ARROWS indicate the official general direction of the trips from HOBART to Mawson, Davis and Casey. Note how "convenient" the trips are-- and note how there is no travel between the stations. There is absolutely no reference made to trips from Hobart to, say, McMurder, or Ruskaya or Halley at the bottom of this map. Not even Rothera. That's because, on a flat earth, the shortest rout from Hobart to Halley is over the NORTH pole! Otherwise, you'd have to travel 60,000/2 = 30,000 miles around half the ice wall to get there. It's just not worth it. And it's never done. On a ROUND spherical Earth, it should be a common occurrance.
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Hi, I'm Captain Rick of the Virtual Circumference Voyage of Antarctica. I intend to prove definitively if Earth is flat or a sphere by paying careful attention to how many miles we cover as we travel "around" Antarctica. Flat earth theory says it's 50-60,000 miles. Spherical Earth theory says it 14,000 miles. Join me and ask any questions that you think would help our mission.