Person
Rymill, John Riddoch (1905 - 1968)
- Born
- 13 March 1905
Penola, South Australia, Australia - Died
- 7 September 1968
Penola, South Australia, Australia - Occupation
- Explorer
Summary
John Rymill was a highly decorated polar explorer. In 1927 he moved to England to study surveying and navigation, and he also got his pilot license. Rymill's first major polar expedition was to Greenland in 1930 as surveyor and pilot with the British Arctic Air Route Expedition. He returned to Greenland several times after this and headed the 1934 British Graham Land Expedition. This proved to be one of the most successful and best organised polar expeditions of the time. The party discovered King George VI Sound (a frozen channel) and explored new areas around the Weddell Sea. The British Antarctic Territory has several places named in Rymill's honour.
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Chronology
- 1930 - 1931
- Award - British Service Polar Medal with Arctic bar
- 1930 - 1931
- Career position - Surveyor and Pilot for the British Arctic Air Route Expedition to Greenland
- 1932 - 1933
- Career position - Second-in-command of an expedition to Greenland
- 1934 - 1937
- Award - British Service Polar Medal with Antarctic bar
- 1934 - 1937
- Career position - British Graham Land Expedition to South Graham Land and the Weddell Sea
- 1938
- Award - The Founders Medal, Royal Geographical Society
- 1939
- Award - David Livingstone Centenary Gold Medal, American Geographical Society of New York
Published resources
Books
- Bechervaise, John, Arctic and Antarctic - the Will and the Way of John Riddoch Rymill (Bluntisham, Huntingdon: Bluntisham Books, 1995), 240 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Bechervaise, John, 'Rymill, John Riddoch (1905-1968), Polar Explorer and Farmer' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 11: 1891 - 1939 Nes-Smi, Geoffrey Serle, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1988), p. 501. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110511b.htm. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2750711. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/24232152. Details
- 'Rymill, John (1905-1968)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-964711. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 2 March 2018
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