Colin Bull (1928–2010)

Dr Colin Bull, geophysicist, glaciologist and cook, was a senior lecturer in physics at Victoria University at the time of this first university Antarctic expedition. He later became Director of the Institute of Polar Studies at The Ohio State University, 1965-69, when he sent the first women afficher plus scientists to Antarctica. Since retiring as Dean of the College of Math and Physical Sciences he has co-edited a biography of Sir Charles Wright, for whom he named Wright Valley, this first research area, and has written Innocents in the Arctic (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2005), an account of his first polar expedition. Bull Pass is one of four significant features named for the expedition members at the time. Bull Lake, two kilometres broad and fully ten centimetres deep in places, was named for him by his students when he became Dean. afficher moins