Cuchlaine Audrey Muriel King (26 June 1922[1] – 17 December 2019) was a British geomorphologist known for her work in glaciology and her extensive writings on the geography of coasts and beaches.
She then joined the Women's Royal Naval Service and became a meteorologist and surveyor for the duration of World War II.
It was unusual at that time for young women to be allowed to participate in fieldwork in such remote, rudimentary areas of Iceland.
However, she participated in research on Baffin Island in the 1960s and the Austerdalsbreen glacier in Norway, and led fieldwork expeditions of her own throughout the Arctic.
[4] Cuchlaine King was honoured with the David Linton Award of the British Society for Geomorphology in 1991.