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John Arnfield Heap, CMG

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 August 2006

Mike Richardson
Affiliation:
Polar Regions Unit, Overseas Territories Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London

Abstract

John Heap's whole working career was one devoted to the polar regions, primarily the Antarctic — as scientist, then as a distinguished, internationally respected polar diplomat, and finally to holding the Directorship of the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge (Fig. 1). Much of the stability and innovative development of the Antarctic Treaty System during the crucial period of the 1970s and 1980s can be attributed to Heap's long tenure as Head of the UK Delegation to successive Antarctic Treaty meetings.

Type
A Remembrance
Copyright
2006 Cambridge University Press

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