
Honour
Medals
- 1951, Founder's Gold Medal, Royal Geographical Society
- 1952, Silver Medal, Royal Society of Arts
- 1953, Polar Medal, H.M. The Queen (and clasp, 1958)
- 1958
- Special Gold Medal, Royal Geographical Society
- Gold Medal, Royal Scottish Geographical Society
- Gold Medal, Geographical Society (Paris)
- Richthofen Medal (Berlin)
- Kirkenpauer Medal (Hamburg)
- 1959
- Plancius Medal (Amsterdam)
- Egede Medal (Copenhagen)
- Hubbard Medal, National Geographical Society (Washington)
- Explorer's Club Medal (New York)
- Gold Medal, Geographical Society (Chicago)
- 1960, Prestwich Medal, Geological Society of London
Honorary Degrees
- 1958
- LLD, Edinburgh University
- DSc, Durham University
- 1959, ScD, Cambridge University
- 1971, ScD, University Colleg Swansea
- 1972, DSc, Leicester University
- 1974, Hon. LLD, Birmingham University
Honorary Fellowships
- 1970, Wolfson (formerly University) College, Cambridge
- 1983, St John's College, Cambridge
Presidencies
- 1963 - 1966, International Glaciological Society
- 1972, British Association for the Advancement of Science
- 1982 - 1984, Royal Geographical Society
Other
- 1983, Freedom of the City of London
Two geographical features in the Antarctic are named in his memory: Fuchs
Dome in the Shackleton Range (surveyed by the TAE in 1957) and Fuchs Ice Piedmont
on Adelaide Island (Hattersley-Smith 1991).
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