# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-j-abercrombie
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:10:39.719Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-j-abercrombie"
name: "Thomas J. Abercrombie"
slug: "thomas-j-abercrombie"
description: "Thomas J. Abercrombie was a senior staff writer and photographer for National Geographic, well known for his work on Middle Eastern countries. During his tenure at the Geographic magazine, Abercrombie travelled to all seven continents, becoming the first staff photojournalist to travel to the South Pole in 1956 while providing photographs for Paul Siple's coverage of the first overwinter stay at the South Pole Station. Other notable coverage includes his photographs of Jacques Cousteau and his crew aboard Cousteau's vessel the Calypso and the transit of the first white tiger from India to the United States. Abercrombie was the first Western journalist to cover the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca in his article Beyond the Sands of Mecca, published 1966."
tagline: "American photographer and writer (1930–2006)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1930-08-13"
deathDate: "2006-04-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump