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Informationen zum Namensgeber Keith Allen (1932–2004)

“[Born] 1932 [in] Scotland. An engineer, he did his national service with the RAF mountain rescue teams, serving in Southern Rhodesia. He lived in Colchester, Essex, then went to South Africa. He returned to England from Cape Town, on Nov. 20, 1953, and joined FIDS in 1958, as a radio operator, wintering- over at Base D in 1959 and 1960. He married Jean, and, after his return from Antarctica, went to work for Vickers for 25 years, and was working for a Norwegian company dealing with offshore gas and oil projects when he was diagnosed with mesothelioma, a deadly asbestos- related form of cancer which he had developed as a result of working at several electrical power stations. He had also worked on the design and construction of circulating water pumps in the Royal Navy’s earliest nuclear submarines. He died in Scotland, on April 19, 2004, and three years later his widow was awarded £355,000 compensation.”

– John Stewart: Antarctica – An Encyclopedia. Bd. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson und London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6, S. 27

--Jamiri (Diskussion) 13:53, 28. Mai 2021 (CEST)