Murchison Island

Murchison Island (52˚36'00" 131˚23'00" SE of Lyell I, E of Moresby I, QCI). Sir Roderick Imprey Murchison (1792–1871) was born in Scotland and first pursued a career in the British Army, seeing action in Spain in 1809 before resigning six years later and getting married. He devoted himself to the study of geology, becoming president of both the Geological Society of London and the Royal Geographical Society, which he helped found in 1830. His great work, The Silurian System, was published...

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