Alexander Hamilton Rice
American geographer and explorer (1875-1956) · United States · On the map · Historical Figures · Died at 80
Alexander Hamilton Rice was an American physician, geographer, and explorer of the Amazon Basin. He was a professor of geography at Harvard University from 1929 to 1952.
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![The yacht Alberta specially modified[7] for the Rices' Amazon explorations, on the North River leaving New York on November 16, 1916[8]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Rice_Yacht_Alberta_full.jpg/500px-Rice_Yacht_Alberta_full.jpg)
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He was also founder and director of the Harvard Institute of Geographical Exploration and curator of the South American section of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
