John Rymill

He was educated at Melbourne Grammar School, where he first developed his love of polar literature, and at the Royal Geographical Society in London, where he studied surveying and navigation.

[5] His British Graham Land Expedition (1934–37)[6] discovered a southern, permanently frozen channel, later named George VI Sound, extending to the Bellingshausen Sea.

Citation of David Livingstone Centenary Gold MedalIn 1938, after completing the official account of the expedition Southern Lights, Rymill married Dr. Eleanor Mary Francis (17 June 1911 – 14 April 2003), a geographer whom he had met at Cambridge.

They returned to Australia to live at and manage the Old Penola Estate,[7] and Rymill served as a district councillor.

He died on 7 September 1968, like his father, as the result of a car accident, survived by his wife and their two sons and was buried at New Penola cemetery.