Background
Hal was born Harold Lister in Keighley, West Yorkshire, and was educated at Keighley Grammar School and King’s College (which later became Newcastle University).
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Hal Lister
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Keighley Grammar School
King"s College (which later became Newcastle University)
, University of Cambridge.
Career
In 1948, Hal guided a small group of Newcastle University Geography undergraduates on a pioneering overseas expedition to Iceland. Hal joined the Merchant Navy, but transferred to the Royal Navy after learning to fly. He went to in 1950 to do research in the Department of Geography, interrupted by his participation as a glaciologist in the British North Greenland Expedition, 1952–1954.
Hal was a glaciologist during the Commonwealth Transport-Antarctic Expedition, 1955-1958.
During this expedition led by Sir Vivian Fuchs he helped to develop maps of the Weddell Sea. Hal"s last post was as a reader at the School of Geography, Newcastle University.
Hal formerly retired in 1986, but continued to travel widely and meet in academic circles until the last few years before he died on the February 24th, 2010. One of his later interests was Amnesty International.
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United Kingdom