Alfred Stephenson OBE (25 November 1908 – 3 July 1999) was an English polar explorer and surveyor.
[1] At age 12 he attended a public lecture given by Ernest Shackleton which inspired his interest in the polar regions.
[1] He went on to study geography at St. Catharine's College, Cambridge where he befriended Frank Debenham who had been on the Terra Nova Expedition led by Robert Falcon Scott between 1910 and 1913.
[2] Following graduation Stephenson joined the British Arctic Air Route Expedition to Greenland as chief surveyor.
[2] During the Second World War he joined the RAF as chief instructor at the Central Allied Photo Interpretation Unit.