The archoplasm divides and forms a very large spindle which first lies tangential to the surface of the nucleus.

Australians, for whom Mawson is a national hero, might have heard of his solo trek to survival in 1913, but few would know that he and another Australian, Edgeworth David, with a lone Briton, were the first men to reach the vicinity of the South Magnetic Pole, and that they did it by the longest unsupported manhaul of the era of discovery.

A man of genius […] doomed to struggle with difficulties.

The seat of administration was in present-day Feng zhou 鳳州 town, located northeast of Feng 鳳 county in Shaan xi 陝西. The territory administered comprised Feng county in present-day Shaan xi, and the two present-day counties of Hui 徽縣 and Liang dang 兩當 in Gan su 甘肅.