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Frank Debenham
(26 Dec 1883 - 23 Nov 1965)
Australian-English geographer and geologist who co-founded (1920) and was the first director (1920-46) of the Scott Polar Research Institute. With Robert Falcon Scott's Antarctic Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913, he did geological and mapping work in Victoria Land, Antarctica, but was prevented by a knee injury from being on Scott's ill-fated expedition to the South Pole.
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Science Quotes by Frank Debenham (1)
[In Adelie Land, Antarctica, a howling river of] wind, 50 miles wide, blows off the plateau, month in and month out, at an average velocity of 50 m.p.h. As a source of power this compares favorably with 6,000 tons of water falling every second over Niagara Falls. I will not further anticipate some H. G. Wells of the future who will ring the antarctic with power-producing windmills; but the winds of the Antarctic have to be felt to be believed, and nothing is quite impossible to physicists and engineers.
— Frank Debenham
Speaking at convention of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Norwich (1935). As quoted in 'Science: One Against Darwin', Time (23 Sep 1935).
See also: | Antarctica (2) | Engineer (16) | Impossible (16) | Niagara Falls (3) | Renewable Energy (4) | Herbert George (H.G.) Wells (18) | Wind Power (3) | Windmill (2)
