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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