{{Short description|Canadian geologist (1923–2012)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Geoffrey Francis Hattersley-Smith''' [[Doctor of Philosophy|D.Phil]], [[Royal Society of Canada|FRSC]], [[Royal Geographical Society|FRGS]], [[Arctic Institute of North America|FAINA]] (22 April 1923 &ndash; 21 July 2012) was an [[England|English]]-born [[Canadians|Canadian]] [[geologist]] and [[glacier|glaciologist]], recognized as a pioneering [[Research|researcher]] of [[Northern Canada]].<ref name="Globe obit">Wingrove, Josh (4 August 2012). "Canada's Far North was the site of research and lifelong passion for adventurer", ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', p. S8. [http://v1.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20120804.OBHATTERSLEYSMITH0803ATL/BDAStory/BDA/deaths Convenience link] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150108175658/http://v1.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20120804.OBHATTERSLEYSMITH0803ATL/BDAStory/BDA/deaths |date=2015-01-08 }}.</ref>

== Early life and education == Born in London in 1923, he attended school at [[Winchester College]] in [[Hampshire]] and read [[geology]] at [[New College, Oxford|New College]], [[Oxford]], followed later by a doctorate in [[glaciology]].<ref name="Globe obit" /><ref name="uoguelph">{{Cite web |url=http://www.arctic.uoguelph.ca/cpe/links_researchers/research/researchers/Leaders_1900_CPE/hattersley_smith.htm |title=Geoffrey Hattersley-Smith (1923–) |access-date=19 August 2010 |archive-date=23 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923173413/http://www.arctic.uoguelph.ca/cpe/links_researchers/research/researchers/Leaders_1900_CPE/hattersley_smith.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>

From 1948 to 1950, he was the base leader for the [[British Antarctic Survey|Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey]] (now the British Antarctic Survey) on [[King George Island (South Shetland Islands)|King George Island]].<ref>[http://www.arctic.ucalgary.ca/index.php?page=Publications_Geographical_Names Geographical Names of the Ellesmere Island National Park Reserve and Vicinity]</ref> He finished his master's degree in 1951.

== Career == In 1951, he became a staff member with the Canadian Defence Research Board (DRB) (now part of the [[Department of National Defence (Canada)|Department of National Defence]]). With the DRB he was part of several expeditions to places such as the [[Saint Elias Mountains]] in [[Yukon]] and [[Cornwallis Island (Nunavut)|Cornwallis Island]], [[Northwest Territories]] (now [[Nunavut]]). From 1953 to 1954 he led the joint Canada-[[United States]] expedition to [[Ellesmere Island]].<ref name="uoguelph"/> In 1956 he received a Doctor of Philosophy from Oxford for his work on Ellesmere's glaciers.

In 1957, he began 16 years of research on Ellesmere Island. As part of the [[International Geophysical Year]] (1957–1958) he went to [[Lake Hazen]] as part of [[Operation Hazen]] and until 1973 worked either there or at [[Ward Hunt Island]]. In 1963, he set up a camp and conducted field research at [[Tanquary Fiord]].<ref name="uoguelph"/> The teams that he led named over 50 features on Ellesmere Island, such as [[Barbeau Peak]], the highest mountain on the island and [[Turnabout River]]. In 1961, he became the first person to climb [[Mount Whisler]], second highest peak on Ellesmere, and on 5 June 1967 led the second team to reach the top of Barbeau Peak that day.<ref>[http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=669 Barbeau Peak] at peakbagger.com</ref>

He was awarded the [[Patron's Medal]] of the [[Royal Geographical Society]] in 1966.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rgs.org/NR/rdonlyres/C5962519-882A-4C67-803D-0037308C756D/0/GoldMedallists18322011.pdf |title=List of Past Gold Medal Winners |publisher=[[Royal Geographical Society]] |accessdate=24 August 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927221002/http://www.rgs.org/NR/rdonlyres/C5962519-882A-4C67-803D-0037308C756D/0/GoldMedallists18322011.pdf |archivedate=27 September 2011 }}</ref> He was elected to the [[Royal Society of Canada]] in 1970 and in 1973 he retired as head of the DRB's Geotechnical Section and returned to England.

After returning to England, he re-joined the British Antarctic Survey and was the secretary of the Antarctic Place-names Committee for the [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office]] in [[London]]. In 1984 the [[Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names]] named [[Cape Hattersley-Smith]] after him.

== Personal life == Hattersley-Smith had two Canadian-born children, Kara and Fiona.<ref name="Globe obit" />

In 1990 he retired to [[Kent]]. He died on 21 July 2012, at the family property where he had grown up.<ref name="Globe obit" /><ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9439365/Geoffrey-Hattersley-Smith.html Obituary] in the Daily Telegraph</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}} *''Geographical Names of the [[Quttinirpaaq National Park|Ellesmere Island National Park Reserve]] and Vicinity'' by Geoffrey Hattersley-Smith (1998) {{ISBN|0-919034-96-9}} <!---Invalid ISBN but it's copied directly from the book--> *''[http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/509184/ The history of place-names in the Falkland Island Dependencies (South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands)]'' by Geoffrey Hattersley-Smith (1980). British Antarctic Survey Scientific Report No. 101. {{ISBN|0856650609}} *''[http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/509172/ The history of place-names in the British Antarctic Territory]'' by Geoffrey Hattersley-Smith (1991). British Antarctic Survey Scientific Report No. 113. {{ISBN|0856651303}}

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