Richard Brooke (explorer)

Richard "Brookes" Brooke (14 January 1927 – 29 June 2020) was an explorer and Royal Naval surveyor whose achievements included spending two winters on the British North‑East Greenland Expedition[1] (1952–1954) and participating in Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (TAE) (1956–1958). During the TAE he became the first person to ascend a peak (Mount Huggins) in the Royal Society Range[2] and walked the 1600 km between Mawson Glacier and Mulock Glacier.[2]

He was also a licensed lay reader in the Church of England in Bath, Somerset.[3]

He died on 29 June 2020 at the age of 93.[4]

References
  1. Gunn, Bernard. "Training on the Tasman Glacier, 1956". Land of the Long Day. Retrieved 13 January 2012.
  2. Amodeo, Christian. "Forward crawl across the White Continent". Geographical. Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers). Retrieved 13 January 2012.
  3. Brooke, Richard. "Charlcombe Church's Richard Brooke remembers exciting journeys with Sir Edmund Hillary, and a special Thanksgiving Service at Windsor" (PDF). Charlcome and Lansdown Parish News Summer 2008. Charlcombe and Bath St Stephen Parochial Church Councils. Retrieved 13 January 2012.
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