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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Inspirational Australians - Sir Douglas Mawson
| Issuer | Royal Australian Mint |
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| Year | 2012 |
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| Composition | Aluminium bronze (92% Copper, 6% Aluminium, 2% Nickel) |
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| Obverse description | Fourth crowned effigy of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland Tiara, as modelled by Ian Rank-Broadley. The sovereign's truncated bust is shown in right-facing profile with the designer's initials IRB appearing below. The peripheral legend reads ELIZABETH II AUSTRALIA with the date 2012 flanking the portrait. |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II AUSTRALIA 2012 IRB |
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Mawson's inclusion in this series is well-earned. His 1911–14 Australasian Antarctic Expedition remains one of the most harrowing survival stories in polar history — after his two companions died on the Far Eastern sledging journey, Mawson walked roughly 160 kilometres back to base alone, his body in the early stages of hypervitaminosis A from eating sled dog liver. He reached the hut hours after the relief ship had departed and wintered over a second year.
He led a further Antarctic expedition in 1929–31, which formally secured large territorial claims for Australia.