Geoffrey Hattersley-Smith
- Geoffrey Hattersley-Smith
Geoffrey Francis Hattersley-Smith D.Phil, FRSC (1923-) is an English born geologist and glaciologist. He attended Winchester College in Hampshire and graduated from New College, Oxford.
From 1948-1950 he was the base leader for the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (now the British Antarctic Survey) on King George Island.
In 1951 he became a staff member with the Canadian Defence Research Board (DRB) (now part of the Department of National Defence. With the DRB he was part of several expeditions to places such as the Saint Elias Mountains in the Yukon and Cornwallis Island, Northwest Territories (now Nunavut). From 1953-1954 he led the joint Canada-United States expedition to Ellesmere Island In 1956 he received a Doctor of Philosophy from Oxford for his work on Ellesmeres glaciers.
In 1957 he began 16 years of research on Ellesmere Island. As part of the International Geophysical Year (1957-1958) he went to Lake Hazen and until 1973 worked either there or at Ward Hunt Island. In 1963 he set up a camp and conducted field research at Tanquary Fiord. The teams that he led named over 50 features on Ellesmere Island, such as Barbeau Peak and Turnabout River.
He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1970 and in 1973 he retired as head of the DRB's Geotechnical Section and returned to England.
After returning to England he re-joined the British Antarctic Survey and was the secretary of the Antarctic Place-names Committee for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London. In 1984 the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named Cape Hattersley-Smith after him.
In 1990 Hattersley-Smith retired to Kent.
References
*"Geographical Names of the Ellesmere Island National Park Reserve and Vicinity" by Geoffrey Hattersley-Smith (1998) ISBN 0-919034-96-9
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