W. R. B. Battle (1919-1953)

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Watson, Adam
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1954
• Subjects: Age; Caucasians; Geological time; Geology; Glaciology; Granite; History; Ice islands; Ice shelves; Indians; Inuit; Metamorphism (Geology); Movement; Population; Size; Social surveys; Structural geology; Arctic Ocean; N.W.T; Nunavut; Nunavik; Québec; Alaska; Greenland; Russian Arctic; Ward Hunt Ice Shelf; United States Range; Arctic; Baffin Island; Lone; Norway; Baffin; East Greenland; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; inuit
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66878

On 13 July 1953 Ben Battle was accidentally drowned in Baffin Island while returning from a lone walk near the Base Camp of the Arctic Institute's 1953 expedition. Walter Ravenhill Brown Battle was born on 23 December 1919 in Leeds, England, and educated at Leeds Grammar School, and at the Univ...