Abstract :
IT TOOK 99 days to complete the 2,158-mile (3,473km) crossing but finally, on 2 March 1958, leader of the Commonwealth Trans Antarctic Expedition (TAE) Vivian ´Bunny´ Fuchs could claim to be the first person to cross the White Continent. It was an expedition that at the time was considered to be one of the greatest achievements of the 20th century and prefigured the attainments of the Apollo missions of the decade that was to follow.
