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Biography of Vivian Fuchs, Sir
Name: Vivian Fuchs, Sir
Birth Date: February 11, 1908
Death Date: November 11, 1999
Place of Birth: England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: explorer, geologist
Vivian Fuchs, Sir
Vivian Fuchs (1908-99) led the British expedition that was the first to cross Antarctica from coast to coast.Vivian Fuchs was born February 11, 1908, in the English county of Kent, the son of a farmer of German origin. He was educated at Cambridge University, where he studied geology. Between the years 1929 and 1938 he went on four geological expeditions to East Africa. During World War II he was a major in the British Army and served in West Africa and Germany and received several medals for bravery.After the war, Fuchs was put in charge of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1947. The Dependencies were a group of islands near Antarctica and included Britain's claim to part of the mainland of Antarctica. Fuchs set up scientific bases on the Graham Peninsula and was marooned in one of them for a year when the supply ship could not land because of weather conditions. During …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…in Ireland1922: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) founded1935: C. F. Richter developed the Richter scale for measuring earthquakes1946: U.S. conducted atom-bomb tests at Bikini Atoll in South Pacific1956: First transatlantic telephone cable was laid1969: Neil Armstrong was first person to walk on the Moon1970: First Earth Day held to protest global pollution1979: Serious accident occured at Three Mile Island nuclear plant1991: Mt. Pinatubo volcano erupted in Philippines Further Reading The joint history of the Fuchs-Hillary expedition is The Crossing of Antarctica (London: Cassell, 1958). Fuchs later wrote a book about British activities in Antarctica and discussed his work there: Of Ice and Men: The Story of the British Antarctic Survey, 1943-73 (London: Anthony Nelson, 1982). There is a good account of the Fuchs-Hillary expedition in Gerald Bowman, Men of Antarctica (New York: Fleet Publishing Corp., 1965) and in C.E.Fogg and David Smith, The Explorations of Antarctica: The Last Unspoilt Continent (London: Cassell, 1990).
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