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'By her own admission, Rachael Mead is obsessed with Antarctica.
She's been fascinated by the remote continent since she was a child, devouring
tales of explorers like Ernest Shackleton and Douglas Mawson.
Since then, the South Australian writer and teacher has spent time researching,
working and travelling in Antarctica.
And yet, one impressive Antarctic trailblazer was unknown to Mead until about
six years ago when she was leafing through a book on Antarctic art.
The name Nel Law was mentioned "in a footnote", Mead says — and it revealed an
incredible fact.
"I saw that [Nel] was the first Australian woman to go to Antarctica. The fact
that I had never heard her name before almost brought me to my knees with
shock.
"I just thought, 'There must be a story here.'"
As it turned out, Mead was right.
"The more I found [out], the more intriguing she became to me," she says.
An incredible figure was emerging: a 1960s housewife, breathtaking artist and
rule-defying ship stowaway.'
Via Clarice Boomshakala Bouvier.
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