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Leopold George Dyke Acland (2 July 1876 – 7 April 1948) was a New Zealand sheep farmer, explorer, soldier, and author.

Acland was born in 1876 in Christchurch, New Zealand, the son of Thomas Acland and Flora Margaret Acland (Waitt). He was educated at Christ's College. After leaving school, he gained pastoral experience, first at Mount Peel Station and then Cracroft Station, before purchasing Glentanner Station, on Lake Pukaki, in 1897.

Acland went to the Second Boer War with the third New Zealand contingent. He was awarded five clasps to his medal. In September 1902, he accompanied Charles Arthur Whitmore Monckton on an expedition of the Territory of Papua. Monckton, who was born in Invercargill, was a resident magistrate in Papua. Acland gave Canterbury names to geographical features along the coastline that they travelled.

In World War I, he served with the New Zealand Army Service Corps (NZASC) and was on Alexander Godley's staff. He received a Military Cross in January 1916. In the 1919 Birthday Honours, Acland was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire.