Chief Hydrographer receives Alexander Dalrymple Award

Vinay Badhwar, AVSM, NM, Chief Hydrographer recently received the Alexander Dalrymple award from the British High Commissioner, Mr Alex Ellis at a presentation ceremony.

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Vice Admiral Vinay Badhwar was conferred with the prestigious award in 2019 but the award ceremony was delayed due to the ongoing pandemic.

The Alexander Dalrymple award has been named after the first hydrographer of the Admiralty and was instituted in 2006.

Alexander Dalrymple was a Scottish geographer and the first Hydrographer of the British Admiralty.

He was the main proponent of the theory that there existed a vast undiscovered continent in the South Pacific, Terra Australis Incognita.