John Wright collection 1934-1938

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John Wright collection 1934-1938

Expedition material (29 volumes, 10 sheets)

eng,

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SNAC Resource ID: 6285602

Scott Polar Research Institute

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British Arctic Expedition Ellesmere Island 1937-1938

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Godfrey Arthur Stuart Talbot

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Wright, John Wilfred

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John Wilfred Wright was born on 21 May 1914. He was educated at Lancing College and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read mathematics and geography. In 1934, he led the Cambridge University Expedition to Iceland, organized to map a small glacier-dammed lake at the edge of the ice cap in southwest Iceland and to make soundings. The following year, he returned north on the Oxford University Arctic Expedition, 1935-1936 (leader Alexander Glen), during which he conducted a survey of...

Croft Noel Andrew Cotton

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Cambridge University Expedition to Iceland 1934

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Hamilton Richard Alexander

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Whatman Amherst Barrow

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Oxford University Arctic Expedition Svalbard 1935-1936

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Simpson, H. J.

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Wright, John Wilfred

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John Wilfred Wright was born on 21 May 1914. He was educated at Lancing College and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read mathematics and geography. In 1934, he led the Cambridge University Expedition to Iceland, organized to map a small glacier-dammed lake at the edge of the ice cap in southwest Iceland and to make soundings. The following year, he returned north on the Oxford University Arctic Expedition, 1935-1936 (leader Alexander Glen), during which he conducted a survey of...