Word: mawson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German mapmaker promptly labeled Wilkes's antarctic coastline "Wilkes Land," and cartographers of many another nation followed suit. But not the British. Long afterward an Australian named Sir Douglas Mawson went over the Wilkes route, claimed that Wilkes had made mistakes or misrepresentations. These were attributed by Wilkes's defenders to polar refraction, which sometimes makes land below the horizon appear above it (a phenomenon also seized on by Robert Peary's defenders to explain Peary's mistakes in Greenland). Later it was shown that Mawson himself had erred because of the same illusions. Finally...