Derek Searle

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Derek John Hatherill Searle (born January 7, 1928 in Hinxton , Essex , † September 12, 2003 in Norwich ) was a British geographer . He is known for his numerous mapping of geographic objects in the Antarctic , especially in the area of ​​the Antarctic Peninsula .

Life

Searle was born to the smallholder and postal worker Robert J. Searle and his wife Daisy Hatherill. In 1946, he first went to the British Army before 1949 at the University of Sheffield his geography studies recorded. He completed this in September 1953. In the same year he found a job with the Directorate of Colonial Surveys . In 1954 he moved to the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), for which he worked on Horseshoe Island off the west coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula in 1955 and 1956 .

In 1957 he returned to England and graduated in geodesy from the University of London . Between 1958 and 1959 he returned to Antarctica for geomorphological studies. Until 1961 he was in the working group of the British geographer David Leslie Linton (1906–1971) at the University of Birmingham . During this time Searle evaluated for the FIDS, among other things, the aerial photographs of the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948), which led to the mapping of numerous geographical objects, which were named in particular by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee . In later years, Searle served in the Norfolk County Council's planning office. Mount Searle , a mountain on Horseshoe Island, is named after him .

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personal data
SURNAME Searle, Derek
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Searle, Derek John Hatherill (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British geographer
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Hinxton , Essex
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 2003
Place of death Norwich