From the 1993/94 Orient Lines Marco Polo brochure...

Sir Vivian Fuchs

Sir Vivian Fuchs, the noted British geologist, has spent almost all of his adult life as an explorer. His first involvement with Antarctica came in the late 1940s as leader of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey. He later initiated and led (with Sir Edmund Hillary) the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition. Sir Vivian served as director of the British Antarctic Survey from 1958 until his retirement in 1975. He has also served as president of the International Glaciological Society and of the Royal Geographical Society, of which he is honorary vice president. In 1990, he published his autobiography, A Time to Speak.


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