Lucinda Catherine "Cindy" Buxton

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Buxton of Alsa, Barony of
retrieved 9 June 2022 is a British wildlife film-maker, photographer and author.

Background and education

The third of the six children of Lord Buxton of Alsa (founder of

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and the television series ''

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Birkin, Bt, of Ruddington Grange, Ruddington, Nottinghamshire (UK) 1905
retrieved 9 June 2022 she was educated at

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Professional career

Buxton's first wildlife film was released in 1971, when she was just 21 years old. She later became involved in filming wildlife documentary films (chiefly for her father's nature documentary television series ''

''). In 1978 she co-wrote the first scientific paper about the

shoebill The shoebill (''Balaeniceps rex'') also known as the whalebill, whale-headed stork or shoe-billed stork, is a very large long-legged wading bird. It derives its name from its enormous shoe-shaped bill. It has a somewhat stork-like overall form ...

, in

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. Her 1980 book "Survival in the Wild" is about her first 8 years in

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. During a filming expedition on South Georgia in March 1982, Buxton and her assistant Annie Price were caught up in the

Falklands War The Falklands War ( es, link=no, Guerra de las Malvinas) was a ten-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over two British dependent territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands and its territorial de ...

. Argentine forces seized control of the east coast of South Georgia on 3 April 1982. Buxton and Price, who had been filming in an isolated part of the island, were trapped for four weeks before they were rescued by a helicopter from HMS ''Endurance'' on 30 April. This and her previous three years there and in

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are described in her book ''Survival: South Atlantic''. She was subsequently invited to return for the

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' 150th anniversary celebrations in February 1983. Buxton and Annie Price won the Media Award of the

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for 1982 and Buxton was invested as a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. She now works in the field of video presentation of legal proceedings, for Z-Axis, which she joined in 1997.

South Georgia Island

Buxton Glacier () is a glacier flowing northeast into St Andrews Bay, South Georgia. This glacier was named by the

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(UK-APC) in 1987 after Buxton and her parents.

Works

Films

*''Nakuru'' (1971) *''Floating Worlds of Naivasha'' (1972) *''Edge of the Abyss'' (1973) *''Almost a Dodo'' (1975) *''The Last Kingdom of the Elephants'' (1977) *''The Down Makers'' (1979) *''Penguin Island'' (1980) *''Falkland Summer'' (1981) *''Stranded on South Georgia'' (1982) *''Opportunity South Atlantic'' (1982) *''Built for the Kill'' (2001)

Books

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References

External links

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