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The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, 1946–471

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

E. W. Bingham
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In July 1945, the Secretary of State for the Colonies appointed me leader of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey for two years, an appointment which brought a prospect of a free existence in the wide open spaces as compared with routine office life. I soon found this prospect fading over the horizon. For months I was tied to an office, early and late, surrounded by scores of papers, insistent questioners and a ceaseless telephone bell. All this was necessary before the stores were ordered, packed and dispatched and the staff appointed.

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Polar Record , Volume 5 , Issue 33-34 , December 1947 , pp. 27 - 39
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1947

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1 For the earlier history of this enterprise see The Polar Record, No. 32, July 1946, pp. 372–84