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Jun 28, 1907 Geneva, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland Died on 07 Mar 1995 (aged 87)
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About Paul Émile Victor
- Paul-Émile Victor (born Paul, Eugène Victor; 28 June 1907 – 7 March 1995) was a French ethnologist and explorer. Victor was born in Geneva, Switzerland to French Jewish parents of Bohemian and Polish descent.
- He graduated from École Centrale de Lyon in 1928.
- In 1934, he participated in an expedition traversing Greenland.
- During World War II, he engaged himself in the US Air Forces. After the War, he initiated the Expéditions polaires françaises to organize French polar expeditions.
- He died in 1995 on Bora Bora, to which he had retired in 1977. A survey led by Victor in 1951 concluded that, under the ice sheet, Greenland is composed of three large islands.
- In 1952 he was awarded the Patron's Gold Medal by the Royal Geographical Society of London for the work.
- Mount Victor, in the Belgica Mountains of Antarctica, is named for him. His son, Jean-Christophe Victor, stars in the weekly geopolitical show Le dessous des cartes on Arte until december 2016.
