Robert Bentham collection

The collection comprises of material relating to the Oxford University Ellesmere Island Expeditions, 1934-1935 and 1936-1938 and correspondence by Bentham

Robert Bentham served as geologist on the Oxford University Ellesmere Island Expedition, 1934-1935 (leader Noel Humphreys) conducting surveys and geological work in the Bache Peninsula area with his colleague, Edward Shackleton. After the expedition, he returned to Canada to spend two more seasons working in Ellesmere Island from a base in Craig Harbour. He later served as geologist with the Burmah Oil Company. He died on 10 August 1968 in London.

The collection is split into two sub-fonds comprising of expedition material and correspondence respectively

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Descriptions compiled by N. Boneham, Assistant Archivist with assistance from R. Stancombe and reference to Arctic, exploration and development c500 BC to 1915, an encyclopaedia by Clive Holland, Garland Publishing, London (1994) and Exploring Polar Frontiers, a historical encyclopaedia by William Mills, San Diego and Oxford, 2003 and Polar Record volume 14 number 92 May 1969 p689

Clive Holland Manuscripts in the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, England - a catalogue, Garland Publishing New York and London (1982) ISBN 0824093941.

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