Derek and Petra Searle

{{short description|British geographer couple}}{{Infobox person | name = Petra Leay Searle | birth_date = {{birth date|1928|12|02|df=yes}} | birth_place = Exeter, Devon | citizenship = British }}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Use British English|date=March 2025}} '''Derek John Hatherall Searle''' (born Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, 1928 – 12 September 2003, Norwich)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hattersley-Smith |first=Geoffrey |author-link=Geoffrey Hattersley-Smith |year=2004 |title=Obituary |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/28F92B9FEB9F178CD0F44E1E3245776B/S003224740400381Xa.pdf/derek_john_hatherill_searle_19282003.pdf |journal=Polar Record |location=United Kingdom |volume=40 |doi=10.1017/S003224740400381X |number=214 |pp=279–280}}</ref> 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.<ref name="gnis">{{cite gnis |type=antarid |id=8641| name = Leay Glacier | access-date = 2013-06-07}}</ref> Derek, a photographer and map librarian worked on the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition,<ref>{{Cite journal |year=1961 |title=The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, 1958–59 |journal=Polar Record |volume=10 |doi=10.1017/S0032247400051627 |number=67 |pp=391-396}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Searle |first=D. |author-link=D. Searle |year=1961 |title=The compilation of a reconnaissance map of Alexander Land, Antarctica, from trimetorgon air photographs |journal=Empire Survey Review |number=119 |pp=1-13}}</ref> and Petra worked for Ordnance Survey International, mapping South Georgia.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bomford |first=Tony |date=September 1999 |title=MAPPING SOUTH GEORGIA 1955 - 56 |url=https://www.fig.net/organisation/perm/hsm/news/RICS_Geomatics_99_Volume_I.pdf |journal=The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors{{'}} Geomatics |page=25 |via=FIG.net}}</ref>

The Leay Glacier off the coast of Graham Land, Antarctica is named after Petra.<ref name=gnis/> Mount Searle on Antartica's Horseshoe Island is named after Derek.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mount Searle |url=https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/display_name.cfm?gaz_id=131382 |access-date=2025-03-10 |website=AAD.gov.au}}</ref>

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==External links== * [https://basclub.org/wp-content/uploads/baohp-transcripts/ad6_24_1_60_4.pdf Transcript] of interview with Petra from November 2009

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