Elke Mackenzie

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title: Elke Mackenzie
text: Elke Mackenzie, born Ivan Mackenzie Lamb, was a British polar explorer and botanist who specialised in the field of lichenology. Beginning her education in Edinburgh, Scotland, Mackenzie later pursued botany at Edinburgh University, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in 1933 and a Doctor of Science in 1942. In the two years she was involved in Operation Tabarin, a covert World War II mission to Antarctica, she identified and documented many lichen species, several of them previously unknown to
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description: British polar explorer and lichenologist (1911–1990)
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date created: 2019-01-29T04:30:46Z
date modified: 2024-09-03T02:40:37Z
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