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served as a solo observer at this post for a five-month tour of duty during the height of the 1930–1931 winter. Watkins and other expedition members relieved him on 5 May 1931, just as
Courtauld's fuel was running out, partly because two of his tins of paraffin had leaked. Later in the expedition, together with
268:. The Butlers bought back Spencers, the house where Mollie had lived during her first marriage, for their home. The couple were married for more than two decades, until Richard, Lord Butler of Saffron Walden, died in 1982. Lady Butler, the former Mrs Mollie Courtauld, died on 18 February 2009 at the age of 101.
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winds are a further incentive to the westbound flyer to take a northern route. During the 1920s, however, little was known of climatic conditions on the coastline of
Greenland, and almost literally nothing was known of the weather in the interior of Greenland during the polar winter. The
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British-Russian team of alpinists climbed a previously unconquered peak (~3150m), de facto the last remaining unclimbed summit in the vicinity of
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in the southern Sahara. Courtauld attempted unsuccessfully to become a stockbroker but returned to
Greenland in the summer of 1929 on another expedition with Wordie.
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The sea canoeist newsletter - Kiwi
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Dancing on Ice: A Stirring Tale of
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which Butler had inherited from his father-in-law, the art collector
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579:"Lady Butler of Saffron Walden: widow of Rab Butler"
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532:. Vol. 9. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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635:"Mountain Augustine Courtauld (ca 3150m)"
416:"The British Arctic Air Route Expedition"
681:United States Department of the Interior
205:Courtauld married Mollie Montgomerie in
702:"Futility Closet 164: Vigil on the Ice"
607:"British-Russian firsts in High Arctic"
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530:Dictionary of National Biography
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385:"Augustine Courtauld: 1904–1959"
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677:United States Geological Survey
307:for brevity, in memory of him.
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762:Recipients of the Polar Medal
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310:The Courtauld Glacier by the
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197:attacks in Arctic waters.
88:Trinity College, Cambridge
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256:; Gatcombe was bought by
420:The Geographical Journal
183:No. 14 (Arctic) Commando
161:Climbing Gunnbjorn Fjeld
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526:Matthew (editor), Colin
331:Futility Closet Podcast
280:Mount Augustine in the
148:King Frederick VI Coast
90:, graduating in 1926.
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414:Watkins, Gino (1932).
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282:Watkins Mountains
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195:limpet mine
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324:Antarctica
246:Rab Butler
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103:Peter Rodd
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