Edgeworth David

Sir William Edgeworth David Tannatt, CMG, KBE, DSO, FRS ( born January 28, 1858 in St Fagans, Glamorganshire, Wales; † August 28, 1934 in Sydney, Australia ) was a British- Australian geologist, surveyor and Arctic explorer.

Life and work

1882 emigrated Tannatt William Edgeworth David to Australia to take up a job as a surveyor of the Geological Survey of New South Wales; it was followed by a Professor of Geology at the University of Sydney from 1891 until 1924. Yet David's real obsession was the field research, he participated in 1897 in an expedition to Funafuti Atoll, where he examined the formation of coral reef formations in the Pacific.

In 1886 he discovered the coal fields in the Hunter Valley in New South Wales.

Between 1907 and 1909 he participated in the Nimrod expedition led by Ernest Shackleton Henry part. As part of this mission in 1908, a group to which David belonged to the first ascent of Mount Erebus. In 1909 he was instrumental in locating the magnetic South Pole.

Back in Australia, David wrote more than 150 textbooks that are most important of which " Geographical Notes of the British Antarctic Expedition " (1909 ) and "The Geology of Australia" ( 1932).

Honors

David was admitted in 1900 as a member ( "Fellow" ) to the Royal Society. In 1910 he became Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George. In 1920 he was knighted ( Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire ). The Royal Society of New South Wales awarded him the 1917 Clarke Medal. Honored him in 1934 the Commonwealth and the states together with a state funeral.

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