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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, G.J. updated 2024-12-17 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P002031b.htm person Rymill John Riddoch AACR2 13 March 1905 7 September 1968 Place of Birth Penola, South Australia, Australia Place of Death Penola, South Australia, Australia Explorer 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. 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 1938 Award - The Founders Medal, Royal Geographical Society 1939 1939 Award - David Livingstone Centenary Gold Medal, American Geographical Society of New York

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 'Rymill, John Riddoch', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Rymill, John Riddoch Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book: Arctic and Antarctic - the Will and the Way of John Riddoch Rymill Bechervaise, John Arctic and Antarctic - the Will and the Way of John Riddoch Rymill Bluntisham, Huntingdon Bluntisham Books 1995