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Tuesday, 20 May 2008 11:59 |
The UK Antarctic Place names Committee (APC) will honour the late Professor Griffiths by naming a bay on the Antarctic Peninsula after him.
Griffiths Bay, as it will be known, is at 64 deg. 23' S, 58 deg. 52' W. The bay, approx. 10 km long and 7 km wide, N of Longing Peninsula, Trinity Peninsula, was formed during the break-up of the Prince Gustav Ice Shelf in 1995 and subsequent deglaciation. Professor Donald Harrison Griffiths (1919-2007) was Professor of Geophysics at Birmingham University from 1963 and a pioneer of marine geosciences in Antarctica and the study of plate tectonics of the Rift Valley in East Africa. His obituary appeared in the February edition of 'A&G' and in the Guardian
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