Beijing: E Dongchen, a pioneer of China’s polar exploration hailed as the “father of polar surveying and mapping”, has died at 80, reported Chutian Metropolis Daily.
E joined China’s first Antarctic and Arctic expeditions, and played a key role in building the country’s first polar research base in the 1980s.
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