2012 $1 Sir Douglas Mawson PNC Gold - 0.5g Proof The wombat is a marsupial

The wombat is a marsupial native to Australia

Symbolic of pure love in the natural environment

generous and tenacious

The Royal Australian Mint’s fourth full-colour coin type to be struck for circulation

triple jump

2012 $1 Sir Douglas Mawson PNC Gold - 0.5g Proof The wombat is a marsupialA mining engineer by training, Douglas Mawson first journeyed to the Antarctic as a member of Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1907 09 British Antarctic Expedition. On this expedition, Mawson, fellow Australian scientist Tannatt William Edgeworth David, and English doctor Alistair Mackay were the first men to reach the South Magnetic Pole after sledging a record 2,000 kilometres in 122 days. The 1911 14 Australasian Antarctic Expedition was planned by Mawson