Person
Price, Archibald Grenfell (1892 - 1977)
- Born
- 28 January 1892
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia - Died
- 20 July 1977
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia - Occupation
- Geographer and Science historian
Summary
Archibald Grenfell Price was master of St Mark's College, University of Adelaide 1925-1957. His writings included The Winning of Australian Antarctica, Mawson's BANZARE Voyages 1929-31 (1962) and The Explorations of Capt. James Cook in the Pacific (1958).
Details
Chronology
- 1923
- Career event - Elected Associate Member (Geography), Australian National Research Council
Related entries
Archival resources
National Library of Australia Oral History Collection
Published resources
Books
- Price, A. Grenfell, The Winning of Australian Antarctica: Mawson's BANZARE voyages, 1929-31: based on the Mawson Papers (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1962), 241 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Heathcote, R. L., 'Price, Sir Archibald Grenfell (1892-1977)' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 16: 1940 - 1980 Pik-Z, John Ritchie and Diane Langmore, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002), pp. 31-33. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160036b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Powell, J. M., 'Sir Archibald Grenfell Price, 1892-1977', Geographers: Bibliographical Studies, 6 (1982), 87-92. Details
- Price, A. G., 'A century of South Australian history.', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 9 (3) (1937), 103-110. Details
- Price, A. Grenfell, 'The mystery of Leichhardt: the South Australian Government expedition of 1938', Proceedings of the Royal geographical Society of Australia (South Australia), 39 (1938), 9-48. Details
- Price, Kenneth, 'Sir Archibald Grenfell Price', Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australia Branch, 11 (610-611) (1985), 40-41, 42. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5607472. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/103999124. Details
- 'Price, A Grenfell (1892-1977)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-517766. Details
See also
- Stephens, C.G.; and Quirk, J.P., 'James Arthur Prescott 1890-1987', Historical Records of Australian Science, 7 (3) (1988), 299-313. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9880730299. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 24 April 2024
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