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Sir Halford John Mackinder (15 February 1861 – 6 March 1947) was a British geographer, academic and politician, who is regarded as one of the founding fathers of both geopolitics [1] and geostrategy.
The Heartland lays at the centre of the World Island, stretching from the Volga to the Yangtze and from the Arctic to the Himalayas.Mackinder's Heartland was the area then ruled by the Russian Empire and after that by the Soviet Union, minus the Kamchatka Peninsula region, which is located in the easternmost part of Russia, near the Aleutian Islands and the Kuril Islands.
The Rimland, Halford Mackinder's "Inner or Marginal Crescent", was divided into three sections: The European coast land; The Arabian-Middle Eastern desert land; and, The Asiatic monsoon land. Rimland or inner crescent contains most of world's people as well as large share of world's resources.
The Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography established in 1971 is an endowed chair located at St Peter's College of the University of Oxford. [1] The post is named after Sir Halford Mackinder, the first Reader in the Department of Geography in Oxford, and an important figure in the early years of Geography as an academic subject in the United Kingdom.
Mackinder [27] by 1900 [6] Hausberg Valley Named after C. B. Hausberg, who attained the summit of Batian with Mackinder, and was the photographer of the expedition. [27] Mackinder [27] by 1900 [6] Hinde Valley Named after Sidney Langford Hinde, who assisted Mackinder's expedition. [27] Mackinder [27] by 1900 [6] Hobley Valley
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The first recorded ascent of Batian was on 13 September 1899 by Sir Halford John Mackinder, Cesar Ollier, and Josef Brocherel. The Normal Route is the most climbed route up Nelion, and thence across to Batian. It was first climbed by Eric Shipton and Percy Wyn-Harris on 6 January 1929.
The first president was the geographer Sir Halford John Mackinder, and the college's first home was the old hospitium building behind Reading Town Hall. The Schools of Art and Science were transferred to the new college by Reading Town Council in the same year.