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    Frank Debenham, OBE (26 December 1883 – 23 November 1965) was Emeritus Professor of Geography at the Department of Geography, Cambridge University and...
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    Debenhams plc was a British department store chain operating in the United Kingdom, Denmark and the Republic of Ireland, and is still operating as a franchise...
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    located on Lensfield Road in the south of Cambridge. SPRI was founded by Frank Debenham in 1920 as the national memorial to Captain Robert Falcon Scott and...
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    catastrophic eruption. So named, probably for its curved shape, by Frank Debenham of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-13, who made a plane table...
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    The Debenham Islands (68°08′S 67°07′W / 68.133°S 67.117°W / -68.133; -67.117 (Debenham Islands)) are a group of islands and rocks lying between Millerand...
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    translation of Bellingshausen's only book was edited by polar explorer Frank Debenham and released. Bellingshausen and Lazarev's Antarctic expedition was...
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    meteorologist George Simpson; Canadian physicist Charles Wright; and geologists Frank Debenham and Raymond Priestley. Senior geologist T. Griffith Taylor, biologists...
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  • and 1927. Born at 42 Wigmore Street, Marylebone, he was the son of Frank Debenham and his wife Emma Folkard née Ridley. Educated at Marlborough College...
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  • motorcyclists Christopher Debenham (born 1953), English cricketer Ernest Debenham (1865–1952), English businessman and politician Frank Debenham (1883–1965), English-Australian...
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    Antarctic Expedition 1910-13 led by Taylor. The name was suggested by Frank Debenham. 77°00′S 162°32′E / 77.000°S 162.533°E / -77.000; 162.533. A low...
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    58 mi) southwest of Castle Rock. Descriptively named for its shape by Frank Debenham of British Antarctic Expedition (British Antarctic Expedition), 1910-13...
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    television producer, comedian, television presenter and former radio host Frank Debenham: Antarctic scientist and geographer Roy De Maistre: painter, born Bowral...
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    expedition. "Their natures jarred on one another", expedition member Frank Debenham recalled. When he first saw the ponies that Scott had brought on the...
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    by the Northern Party of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-13. Frank Debenham, geologist with the latter expedition, applied the name Nansen Sheet...
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    with the knowledge that the polar party had undoubtedly perished. Frank Debenham wrote that "in the winter it was once again Crean who was the mainstay...
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    figure in the late 20th century for his work in quantitative geography Frank Debenham, first director of the Scott Polar Research Institute Sir Peter Hall...
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    publications. On a personal level he had made enemies as well as friends; Frank Debenham, the geologist who served with both Scott and Shackleton, called Markham...
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  • Amanda Davies (Australia, living) William Morris Davis (US, 1850–1934) Frank Debenham (Australia/England, 1883–1965) John Dee (England, 1527–1608) Ruth DeFries...
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    mapped by the BrNAE (1901-04). It was named by the BrAE (1910-13) for Frank Debenham, geologist with the expedition and Director of the Scott Polar Research...
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    Candidate Votes % ±% Conservative James Agg-Gardner 3,241 55.4 −4.1 Liberal Frank Debenham 2,610 44.6 +4.1 Majority 631 10.8 −8.2 Turnout 5,851 88.1 +1.7 Registered...
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  • be the editor. Therefore, the at-the-time director of the institute, Frank Debenham became the founding editor of the journal. From its inception in 1931...
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  • the Antarctic seas 1819–1821. Translated from the Russian, edited by Frank Debenham, OBE MA, Director of the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge,...
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  • was chaired by Alexander Carr-Saunders and its members consisted of Frank Debenham, Raymond Firth, Harry Hodson, Margery Perham, Arnold Plant, Margaret...
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    disliked but which was a rich source of Vitamin C. As his companion Frank Debenham put it many years later, "Teddy really was a very naughty boy and wouldn't...
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  • Lillie, M.A. Silver. Antarctic, 1910-13. British Antarctic Expedition. Frank Debenham, B.A., B.Sc. Silver. Antarctic, 1910-13. British Antarctic Expedition...
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    (Sir) Raymond Priestley, Canada's Charles Wright and the Australian Frank Debenham who all shared his passion for Antarctic exploration and would all travel...
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  • researches into the human aspects of geography 1947: Eva G. R. Taylor 1948: Frank Debenham 1950: Emmanuel de Martonne 1951: Charles Cotton 1953: John Myres 1955:...
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  • had been established. In 1919 the Geography BA tripos was introduced. Frank Debenham (1931–1949) James Alfred Steers (1949–1966) "A brief history of the...
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  • W. Vaughan Lewis, Gordon Manley and Ronald Peel in 1947. Professor Frank Debenham, and Dr Jean Mitchell provided much encouragement and in the next three...
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    which he undertook research. His occupation brought him in contact with Frank Debenham and Raymond Priestley, who were members of the second Antarctic expedition...
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