Dr Phillip Garth Law AC CBE (1912–2010)

This redoubtable Australian polar explorer and recipient of the Royal Geographical Society's Founder's Medal (1960) died on 28 February 2010, aged 97. Such was his stature – with no less than 28 expeditions to the Antarctic and its islands – he was frequently referred to as ‘Mr Antarctica’.

A full obituary was published in The Geographical Journal