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Mar 01, 1919 Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, Australia Died on 02 Dec 1994 (aged 75)
Australian geologist
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About Reg Sprigg
- Reginald Claude Sprigg, AO, HonDSc ANU, HonDSc Flinders, MSc Adelaide, FTSE (1 March 1919 – 2 December 1994) was an Australian geologist and conservationist.
- At 17 he became the youngest Fellow of the Royal Society of South Australia.
- During 1946, in the Ediacara Hills, South Australia he discovered the Ediacara biota, an assemblage of some of the most ancient animal fossils known.
- He was involved with oceanographic research and petroleum exploration by various companies that he initiated.
- In 1968, he acquired a derelict pastoral lease, Arkaroola, and transformed it into a wildlife sanctuary and wilderness reserve.
