Jean Suret-Canale (1921-2007) was an anti-colonialist geographer, better known as an historian of sub-Saharan Africa, whose position on the far left of politics created complexities in his professional life (as a secondary teacher, and researcher
Kenneth Cumberland was a Yorkshireman who became the first geographer by qualification to teach the subject at university level in New Zealand. He joined the new Department of Geography at Canterbury University College inChristchurch in May 1938