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Francis Howard Bickerton (15 January 1889 – 21 August 1954) was an English treasure hunter, Antarctic explorer, soldier, aeronaut, entrepreneur, big-game hunter and movie-maker.
F.H. Bickerton. Editor: Mutiny on the Elsinore. Francis Howard - or "Bill" - Bickerton served as mechanical engineer on Sir Douglas Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911-14.
- Editor, Writer
- January 15, 1889
- F.H. Bickerton
- August 21, 1954
Charted by the AAE under Mawson, 1911-14, and named by him for F. H. Bickerton, engineer of the expedition and leader of the Western Party which sighted the cape from its farthest west camp. Variant Name - Cape Richardson
F.H. Bickerton was an editor and writer who worked for the Oxford University Press from 1912 to 1948. He was responsible for editing and publishing many of the works of the Oxford English Dictionary, including the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in 1928.
No one better represented this eclectic band than Frank Bickerton, engineer on Douglas Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE) of 1911–14. A true pioneer of Antarctic exploration, he piloted the expedition's 'air-tractor', established the first crucial wireless link between Antarctica and the rest of the world, and discovered one of ...
Born Adventurer tells the story of Frank Bickerton (1889-1954), the British engineer on Sir Douglas Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911-14.
Born Adventurer tells the story of Frank Bickerton (1889-1954), the British engineer on Sir Douglas Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911-14.
