{{Short description|Geologist, university professor}} {{redirect|R. S. Allan|the American television writer and producer|R. S. Allen}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2017}} '''Robin Sutcliffe Allan''' (7 September 1900 – 5 July 1966) was a New Zealand geologist and university professor.<ref name="DNZB Allan">{{DNZB|Campbell|J. D.|5a7|Robin Sutcliffe Allan|1 December 2011}}</ref> The university professor William Salmond was his grandfather.<ref name="DNZB Allan" />
Allan was the geologist on the 1924 Chatham Islands Expedition.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Clayworth |first=Peter |date=2014 |title=Anthropology and archaeology - ‘Salvage anthropology’ and the birth of professionalism |url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/44415/h-d-skinner-and-the-chatham-islands-expedition-1924 |access-date=13 July 2024 |website=Te Ara}}</ref>
In 1953, Allan was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.nzlii.org/nz/other/nz_gazette/1953/37.pdf |title=Coronation Medal |work=Supplement to the New Zealand Gazette |issue=37 |date=3 July 1953 |access-date=14 April 2021 |pages=1021–1035}}</ref> The Allan Hills in Antarctica, mapped by the New Zealand party (1957–58) of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, were named in his honour.<ref>{{cite gnis | type = antarid | id = 276| name = Allan Hills/Allan Nanatuk | accessdate = 2020-09-23}}</ref>
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