Robin Sutcliffe Allan (7 September 1900 – 5 July 1966) was a New Zealand

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and university professor. The university professor William Salmond was his grandfather. Allan was the geologist on the 1924 Chatham Islands Expedition. In 1953, Allan was awarded the

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. The

Allan Hills The Allan Hills () are a group of hills, mainly ice free and about long, lying just north-west of the Coombs Hills near the heads of Mawson Glacier and Mackay Glacier in the Oates Land and Victoria Land regions of Antarctica. Exploration and n ...

in Antarctica, mapped by the New Zealand party (1957–58) of the

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, were named in his honour.

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1900 births 1966 deaths 20th-century New Zealand geologists Academic staff of the University of Canterbury Presidents of the Royal Society of New Zealand University of Otago alumni Salmond family {{NewZealand-scientist-stub