Robin Allan
Geologist, university professor
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Robin Sutcliffe Allan (7 September 1900 – 5 July 1966) was a New Zealand geologist and university professor.[1] The university professor William Salmond was his grandfather.[1]
Allan was the geologist on the 1924 Chatham Islands Expedition.[2]
In 1953, Allan was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal.[3] The Allan Hills in Antarctica, mapped by the New Zealand party (1957–58) of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, were named in his honour.[4]
