Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A farkon 1911, Mertz ya tafi London don ganawa da masanin ilimin ƙasa na Australiya da mai binciken Douglas Mawson. Mawson, wanda ya yi aiki a matsayin masanin kimiyyar lissafi a lokacin Ernest Shackleton 1908<unk>1909 "Nimrod" tafiya
, yana shirin tafiyarsa ta Antarctic.