Eleanor Honnywill


Eleanor Honnywill was instrumental in supporting the work of British Antarctic Survey.

Career

Honnywill won the 1975 Fuchs Medal of the British Antarctic Survey in recognition of her service to the BAS and its predecessor the Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey. She had been secretary to the 1955-1958 Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, based in the expedition's London headquarters. In 1958 she moved to FIDS as personal assistant to Vivian Fuchs when he took up the directorship, and worked with him on the expedition's papers and his Of Ice and Men, the history of the FIDS and BAS.
Honnywill Peak in the Shackleton Range in Antarctica is named for her.
Her book The Challenge of Antarctica was published in 1969 and republished in 1984.

Personal life

She married Captain Richard B. "Dick" Honnywill, a naval officer. After his death, and that of Lady Joyce Fuchs in 1990, she married Sir Vivian Fuchs on 8 August 1991.