Godwin-Austen
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Godwin-Austen may refer to:
  • Alfred Reade Godwin-Austen
    Alfred Reade Godwin-Austen
    General Sir Alfred Reade Godwin-Austen KCSI, CB, OBE, MC was a British Army officer. He served during the First and Second World Wars.-Early life:The second son of Lieutenant-Colonel A. G...

     (1889-1963), British Army
    British Army
    The British Army is the land warfare branch of Her Majesty's Armed Forces in the United Kingdom. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdom of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707. The new British Army incorporated Regiments that had already existed in England...

     general
  • Robert Alfred Cloynes Godwin-Austen
    Robert Alfred Cloynes Godwin-Austen
    Robert Alfred Cloyne Godwin-Austen FRS was an English geologist.Godwin-Austen was the eldest son of Sir Henry E. Austen. He was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, of which he became a fellow in 1830. He afterwards entered Lincoln's Inn...

     (1808-1884), geologist
    Geologist
    A geologist is a scientist who studies the solid and liquid matter that constitutes the Earth as well as the processes and history that has shaped it. Geologists usually engage in studying geology. Geologists, studying more of an applied science than a theoretical one, must approach Geology using...

  • Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen
    Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen
    Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen FRS FZS FRGS MBOU , was an English topographer, geologist and surveyor.The eldest son of Robert Alfred Cloyne Godwin-Austen, Godwin-Austen was born in Teignmouth...

     (1834-1923), topographer, geologist and malacologist, namesake of K2
    K2
    K2 is the second-highest mountain on Earth, after Mount Everest...

    , son of Robert
  • Godwin Austen Glacier near the K2
    K2
    K2 is the second-highest mountain on Earth, after Mount Everest...

     mountain in the Northern Areas of Pakistan
  • Godwin Austen Peak, also known as K2
    K2
    K2 is the second-highest mountain on Earth, after Mount Everest...

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