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Georges Alexander Doumani (born April 26, 1929 in Acre during the British Mandate of Palestine) is a Lebanese-Palestinian explorer and geologist who studied at Terra Saint College in Jerusalem. After the Nakba, he left with his family to the village of Bkassine in Lebanon. Then he moved to Saudi Arabia in 1949 and worked in the field of oil extraction. He graduated from the University of California and contributed to the International Geophysical Year in 1958 in Antarctica and then made other trips to the Antarctic continent in the early sixties. His discoveries contributed to proving the theory of continental drift. Two mountains in Antarctica are named after him.
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