Hal Lister
Hal Lister (1 May 192124 February 2010) was a British
geographer and
Arctic explorer. Hal was born
Harold Lister in
Keighley,
West Yorkshire, and was educated at Keighley Grammar School and King's College (which later became
Newcastle University). In 1948, Hal guided a small group of
Newcastle University Geography undergraduates on a pioneering overseas expedition to Iceland. Hal joined the
Merchant Navy, but transferred to the
Royal Navy after learning to fly. He went to
Fitzwilliam College,
University of Cambridge in 1950 to do research in the
Department of Geography, interrupted by his participation as a glaciologist in the
British North Greenland Expedition, 1952–1954. His Ph.D. was awarded in 1956. Hal was a glaciologist during the
Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1955-1958. During this expedition led by
Sir Vivian Fuchs he helped to develop maps of the
Weddell Sea. Hal's last post was as a reader at the School of Geography,
Newcastle University. Hal formerly retired in 1986, but continued to travel widely and meet in academic circles until the last few years before he died on 24 February 2010. One of his later interests was
Amnesty International.
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