mackinder, sir halford john
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mackinder, sir halford john
British political geographer noted for his work as an educator and for his geopolitical conception of the globe as divided into two camps, the ascendant Eurasian "heartland" and the subordinate "maritime lands," including the other continents. He was knighted in 1920.
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