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Albert Ernest Kitson

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Sir Albert Ernest Kitson KBE, CMG (21 March 1868 – 8 March 1937) was a British-Australian geologist, naturalist, and winner of the Lyell Medal in 1927. [1]

63 relations: Akosombo, Albert Kitson, 2nd Baron Airedale, Audenshaw, Australian nationality law, Baron Harlech, Bauxite, Beaconsfield, Benalla, Birim River, British Museum, British Science Association, Buchan Caves, Canberra, Cheshire, Diamond, Edinburgh, Edmund Thiele, Enugu, Eucalypt, Eucalyptus kitsoniana, Fetish priest, Florey, Australian Capital Territory, Fossil, Geological Society of London, Geologist, GeoScience Victoria, Ghana, Gippsland, Gold Coast (British colony), Gold rush, India, John Dennant, John Walter Gregory, Kaduna, Kakamega, Kenya, Klondike, Yukon, Kwahu, Kwame Nkrumah, Lake Volta, Lyell Medal, Lyrebird, Manchester, Manganese, Mollusca, Nagpur, Natural history, Nigeria, Order of St Michael and St George, Order of the British Empire, ..., Port Harcourt, Presbyterianism, RMIT University, Sekondi-Takoradi, Smithsonian Institution, Snake, Stonemasonry, Tasmania, University of Melbourne, Vaughan Cornish, Victoria (Australia), Volta River, Walter Egerton. Expand index (13 more) »

Akosombo

Akosombo is a small town in the south of the Asuogyaman District, Eastern Region, Ghana.

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Albert Kitson, 2nd Baron Airedale

Albert Ernest Kitson, 2nd Baron Airedale (7 October 1863 – 11 March 1944) was a British peer.

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Audenshaw

Audenshaw is a town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, on the River Tame south-west of Ashton-under-Lyne and east of Manchester.

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Australian nationality law

Australian nationality law determines who is and who is not an Australian citizen.

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Baron Harlech

Baron Harlech, of Harlech in the County of Merioneth, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

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Bauxite

Bauxite is a sedimentary rock with a relatively high aluminium content.

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Beaconsfield

Beaconsfield is a market town and civil parish within the South Bucks district in Buckinghamshire centred WNW of London and SSE of the county's administrative town, Aylesbury.

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Benalla

Benalla is a small city located on the Broken River in the High Country north-eastern region of Victoria, Australia, about north east of the state capital Melbourne.

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Birim River

The Birim River is one of the main tributaries of the Pra River in Ghana and the country's most important diamond-producing area, flowing through most of the width of the Eastern region.

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British Museum

The British Museum, located in the Bloomsbury area of London, United Kingdom, is a public institution dedicated to human history, art and culture.

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British Science Association

The British Science Association (BSA) is a charity and learned society founded in 1831 to aid in the promotion and development of science.

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Buchan Caves

The Buchan Caves are a group of limestone caves that include the Royal Cave and the Fairy Cave, located south-west of, in the East Gippsland region of the Australian state of Victoria.

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Canberra

Canberra is the capital city of Australia.

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Cheshire

Cheshire (archaically the County Palatine of Chester) is a county in North West England, bordering Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south and Flintshire, Wales and Wrexham county borough to the west.

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Diamond

Diamond is a solid form of carbon with a diamond cubic crystal structure.

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Edinburgh

Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann; Edinburgh) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.

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Edmund Thiele

Edmund Oswald Thiele (1874–1971), later known as Sir Edmund Oswald Teale KBE (he changed the spelling of his surname in 1917) was a prominent geologist from Doncaster, Victoria, Australia.

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Enugu

Enugu is the capital of Enugu State in Nigeria.

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Eucalypt

Eucalypt is a descriptive name for woody plants with capsule fruiting bodies belonging to seven closely related genera (of the tribe Eucalypteae) found across Australasia: Eucalyptus, Corymbia, Angophora, Stockwellia, Allosyncarpia, Eucalyptopsis and Arillastrum.

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Eucalyptus kitsoniana

Eucalyptus kitsoniana, also known as the Gippsland mallee or bog gum, is a species of native Australian tree.

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Fetish priest

In Ghana, Togo, Benin and other countries of West Africa, a fetish priest is a person who serves as a mediator between the spirit and the living.

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Florey, Australian Capital Territory

Florey is a residential suburb of the Belconnen district of Canberra, located within the Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

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Fossil

A fossil (from Classical Latin fossilis; literally, "obtained by digging") is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.

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Geological Society of London

The Geological Society of London, known commonly as the Geological Society, is a learned society based in the United Kingdom.

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Geologist

A geologist is a scientist who studies the solid and liquid matter that constitutes the Earth as well as the processes that shape it.

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GeoScience Victoria

GeoScience Victoria, formerly the Geological Survey of Victoria (GSV) is a government agency responsible for mapping the geology of Victoria, Australia.

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Ghana

Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a unitary presidential constitutional democracy, located along the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean, in the subregion of West Africa.

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Gippsland

Gippsland is an economic rural region of Victoria, Australia, located in the south-eastern part of that state.

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Gold Coast (British colony)

The Gold Coast was a British colony on the Gulf of Guinea in west Africa from 1867 to its independence as the nation of Ghana in 1957.

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Gold rush

A gold rush is a new discovery of gold—sometimes accompanied by other precious metals and rare earth minerals—that brings an onrush of miners seeking their fortune.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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John Dennant

John Dennant (1839 – 12 June 1907) was an English-born educational administrator and geologist, president of the Royal Society of Victoria in 1903.

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John Walter Gregory

Prof John Walter Gregory, FRS, FRSE FGS LLD (27 January 1864 – 2 June 1932) was a British geologist and explorer, known principally for his work on glacial geology and on the geography and geology of Australia and East Africa.

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Kaduna

Kaduna is the state capital of Kaduna State in north-western Nigeria, on the Kaduna River, is a trade centre and a major transportation hub for the surrounding agricultural areas with its rail and road junction.

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Kakamega

Kakamega is a town in western Kenya lying about 30 km north of the Equator.

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Kenya

Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya, is a country in Africa with its capital and largest city in Nairobi.

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Klondike, Yukon

The Klondike is a region of the Yukon territory in northwest Canada, east of the Alaskan border.

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Kwahu

Kwahu is an Akan group and area, dubbed Asaase Aban or the natural fortress, in view of its national position as the highest habitable elevation.

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Kwame Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah PC (21 September 1909 – 27 April 1972) was a Ghanaian politician and revolutionary.

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Lake Volta

Lake Volta is the largest reservoir, man-made lake, in terms of surface area contained behind the Akosombo Dam.

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Lyell Medal

The Lyell Medal is a prestigious annual scientific medal given by the Geological Society of London, equal in status to the Murchison Medal.

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Lyrebird

A lyrebird is either of two species of ground-dwelling Australian birds that compose the genus Menura, and the family Menuridae.

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 530,300.

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Manganese

Manganese is a chemical element with symbol Mn and atomic number 25.

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Mollusca

Mollusca is a large phylum of invertebrate animals whose members are known as molluscs or mollusksThe formerly dominant spelling mollusk is still used in the U.S. — see the reasons given in Gary Rosenberg's.

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Nagpur

Nagpur is the winter capital, a sprawling metropolis, and the third largest city of the Indian state of Maharashtra after Mumbai and Pune.

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Natural history

Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms including animals, fungi and plants in their environment; leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study.

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Nigeria

Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a federal republic in West Africa, bordering Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north.

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Order of St Michael and St George

The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is a British order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George, Prince Regent, later King George IV, while he was acting as regent for his father, King George III.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the Civil service.

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Port Harcourt

Port Harcourt (Ikwerre: Ígúọ́cha; Pidgin: Po-ta-kot) is the capital and largest city of Rivers State, Nigeria.

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Presbyterianism

Presbyterianism is a part of the reformed tradition within Protestantism which traces its origins to Britain, particularly Scotland, and Ireland.

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RMIT University

RMIT University (officially the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, informally RMIT) is an Australian public research university located in Melbourne, Victoria.

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Sekondi-Takoradi

Sekondi-Takoradi, a city comprising the twin cities of Sekondi and Takoradi, is the capital of Sekondi – Takoradi Metropolitan District and the Western Region of Ghana.

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Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution, established on August 10, 1846 "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge," is a group of museums and research centers administered by the Government of the United States.

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Snake

Snakes are elongated, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes.

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Stonemasonry

The craft of stonemasonry (or stonecraft) involves creating buildings, structures, and sculpture using stone from the earth, and is one of the oldest trades in human history.

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Tasmania

Tasmania (abbreviated as Tas and known colloquially as Tassie) is an island state of Australia.

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University of Melbourne

The University of Melbourne is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia.

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Vaughan Cornish

Vaughan Cornish (22 December 1862 - 1 May 1948) was an English geographer.

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Victoria (Australia)

Victoria (abbreviated as Vic) is a state in south-eastern Australia.

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Volta River

The Volta River is the main river system in the West African country of Ghana.

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Walter Egerton

Sir Walter Egerton KCMG (1858 – 22 March 1947) had a long career in the administration of the British Empire, holding senior positions which included the Governorships of Lagos Colony (1904–1906), Southern Nigeria (1906–1912), and British Guiana (1912–1917).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Ernest_Kitson

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