Derek Searle
Derek John Hatherall Searle (born Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, 1928 – 12 September 2003, Norwich) and Petra Leay Searle (born Exeter, Devon, 2 December 1928) are a British couple known for surveying British Overseas Territories and Antarctica in the mid-20th Century. Derek, a photographer and map librarian worked on the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition, and Petra worked for Ordnance Survey International, mapping South Georgia. The Leay Glacier off the coast of Graham Land, Antarctica is named after Petra.
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Derek Searle
- Name
- Petra Leay Searle
- Born
- 2 December 1928
- Birthplace
- Exeter, Devon
- Died
- 2003 · Norwich.
- Occupation
- geographer · photographer · surveyor · explorer · geologist · map librarian
- Education
- University of Sheffield
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Derek John Hatherall Searle (born Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, 1928 – 12 September 2003, Norwich) and Petra Leay Searle (born Exeter, Devon, 2 December 1928) are a British couple known for surveying British Overseas Territories and Antarctica in the mid-20th Century. Derek, a photographer and map librarian worked on the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition, and Petra worked for Ordnance Survey International, mapping South Georgia. The Leay Glacier off the coast of Graham Land, Antarctica is named after Petra.
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Mount Searle on Antartica's Horseshoe Island is named after Derek.
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• Name — Petra Leay Searle • Born — 2 December 1928 • Birthplace — Exeter, Devon • Citizenship — British
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- 1.Hattersley-Smith, Geoffrey. Obituary. Polar Record. 40. 214. 2004. 10.1017/S003224740400381X.
- 2.antarid. Leay Glacier.
- 3.The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, 1958–59. Polar Record. 10. 67. 1961. 10.1017/S0032247400051627.
- 4.Searle, D. The compilation of a reconnaissance map of Alexander Land, Antarctica, from trimetorgon air photographs. Empire Survey Review. 119. 1961.
- 5.Bomford, Tony. MAPPING SOUTH GEORGIA 1955 - 56. The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors Geomatics. 25. September 1999.
- 6.Mount Searle. AAD.gov.au.
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