page_title: Ken Blaiklock
section_title: Honours
hierarchical_section_title: Ken Blaiklock / Honours
caption_attribution_description: Tucker sno-cat at Canterbury Museum.
context_page_description: Kenneth Victor Blaiklock OBE is a British Antarctic surveyor who took part in Sir Vivian Fuchs's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition that completed the first overland crossing of Antarctica. During this expedition, he reached the South Pole by dog sled for the first time since Amundsen. He has been awarded the Polar Medal with three bars. His daughter is British politician, Catherine Blaiklock.
context_section_description: Blaiklock has been awarded the Polar Medal with three bars, the Cuthbert Peek award in 1957 by the Royal Geographical Society, the Chevalier de la Couronne medal in 1961 by the Belgian government, the W.S. Bruce Medal in 1962 by the Scottish Geographical Society, and in 1971 the Order of the British Empire.
caption: A Tucker Sno-Cat used in the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition.
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