geographer
Noun
Meaning
One versed in geography.
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A 20th-century geographer named 37 islands, of which he believed 19 have or had monasteries or churches on them.
Alienated by growing antisemitism and nationalism as well as the very limited academic opportunities for a geographer in Germany, Boas decided to stay in the United States.
De situ orbis, II, 7 The Greek geographer Dionysius Periegetus of Bithynia, who lived at the time of Domitian, writes that the island was called Leuce "because the wild animals which live there are white.
Bowman's role as the President geographer didn't change as Wilson left office, as he would go one to later become Roosevelt's geographer.
And the geographer, as he turns over the folios, with their details of population and of arable, woodland, meadow and other resources, cannot but be excited at the vast amount of information that passes before his eyes.
For his part Boas self-identified as a geographer by this time, prompting his sister, Toni, to write in 1883 "After long years of infidelity, my brother was re-conquered by geography, the first love of his boyhood." quoted in Koelsch, 2004, p.1.