04 April 2007

JHR Interview - polar sites

Polar Interview site an oral interview with Colonel John Roscoe, conducted as part of the Polar Oral History Project of the American Polar Society and the Byrd Polar Research Center of Ohio State University on a grant from the National Science Foundation by Brian Shoemaker, interviewer.For a transcript of this interesting interview done with JHR go to the original pdf version: http://kb.osu.edu/dspace/bitstream/1811/24309/1/RoscoeTranscript.pdf

For anyone wondering what will happen to JHR's extensive Polar library collection, it is marked to go to Ohio State University's Polar Collection.

For information about JHR named places in the antarctic:

Roscoe Glacier
http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.GetDetail?tab=Y&id=1413884

Roscoe Promontory
http://aadc-maps.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/display_name.cfm?gaz_id=130942

JHR, by the way, was not the first in our family to be a polar explorer. His maternal grandmother's great uncle was Peter Warren Dease whose contributions to the exploration and history of the Canadian North is commemorated in a range of place names: Dease Lake and Dease River (a tributary of the Laird) in northern British Columbia, named by Robert Campbell; Dease Arm, the northeast arm of Great Bear Lake, and Dease River flowing into the head of that arm, both named by John Franklin; and Dease Strait between Kent Peninsula, and the south coast of Victoria Island, named by Thomas Simpson.

For further information on JHRs gggreat uncle, read From "Barrow to Boothia: The Artic Journal of Chief factor Peter Warren Dease, 1836-1839" ed., William BarrMcGill-Queen's University Press ISBN 0-7735-2253-0
http://www.amazon.com/Barrow-Boothia-Journal-1836-1839-Ruperts/dp/0773522530/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239649504&sr=8-1

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