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2009 $5 Polar Series Antarctic Explorers Silver Proof Coin PNCs - International To mark the 50th anniversaryDeveloped in conjunction with the Royal Society of Victoria and celebrating Australias connection with Antarctica, with over on ounce of silver (36. 31g), this coin honours the first Australians to explore the southern continent. Douglas Mawson, Tannat Edgeworth David and Forbes Mackay were members of the Ernest Shackleton Expedition. It depicts the moment when the three reached the South Magnetic Pole in January 1909.