page_title: Rob Fenwick
section_title: Antarctica
hierarchical_section_title: Rob Fenwick / Conservation, sustainability and humanity initiatives / Antarctica
caption_attribution_description: English: Sir Robert Fenwick, then Chairman of Antarctica NZ.
context_page_description: Sir Robert George Mappin Fenwick KNZM KStJ was a New Zealand environmentalist, businessman and professional director.
  Fenwick co-founded the organic composting service Living Earth Ltd, the NZ Natural bottled water brand and Te Matuku Oysters and held a number of board and advisory panel positions. His conservation and sustainability work included leadership roles in the Predator Free 2050 movement, co-founding the New Zealand Business Council for Sustainable Development and several leadership roles in Antarctica.
  Fenwick was knighted in the 2016 Queen's Birthday Honours for "significant contributions to New Zealand’s sustainable development, wildlife protection, waste minimisation, environmental science and Antarctica, and iwi development over the past 30 years". A year earlier, Fenwick received the 2015 Blake Medal, with the Sir Peter Blake Trust acknowledging him as "New Zealand's foremost statesman of sustainability and the environment, and an exceptional leader and motivator in business and governance". Fenwick was a finalist for the 2016 New Zealander of the Year Award and was inducted to the New Zealand NZ Business Hall of Fame in 2016.
context_section_description: North & South Magazine wrote that “Rob Fenwick has had more impact on Antarctica than possibly any other New Zealander”.
  In 1993, Fenwick launched an international campaign to preserve the Scott and Shackleton Antarctic huts. He was later elected and served as chairman of the Antarctic Heritage Trust from 1996–2007. Following the completion of the project, Fenwick was invited to chair the board of Antarctica New Zealand. During his term the agency constructed wind powered turbines to supply energy to the New Zealand and US research stations and the Hillary Science Centre was completed at Scott Base. In 2012 he established the privately funded Antarctic Research Institute – partnering with research agencies to expand climate change research on the continent.
  The Fenwick Ice Piedmont was named in his honour by the New Zealand Geographic Board in acknowledgment of his efforts.
caption: Sir Rob Fenwick, then Chairman of Antarctica NZ.
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