Lucinda Catherine "Cindy" Buxton FRGS is a British wildlife film-maker, photographer and author
Background
The third of the six children of Lord Buxton of Alsa (founder of Anglia Television and the television series Survival) and Pamela Mary Birkin, daughter of Sir Henry Birkin, she was educated at New Hall School, Chelmsford, Essex. She later became involved in filming wildlife documentary films (chiefly for her father"s nature documentary television series Survival).
Career
Her first wildlife film was released in 1971, when she was just 21 years old. In 1978 she co-wrote the first scientific paper about the Shoebill, in Zambia. Her 1980 book "Survival in the Wild" is about her first 8 years in Africa.
During a filming expedition on South Georgia in March 1982, Cindy Buxton and her assistant Annie Price were caught up in the Falklands War.
They were trapped for four weeks before they were rescued by a helicopter from HMS Endurance. This and her previous three years there and in Antarctica are described in her book "Survival: South Atlantic".
She was subsequently invited to return for the Falkland Islands" 150th anniversary celebrations in February 1983. She now works in the field of video presentation of legal proceedings, for Z-Axis, which she joined in 1997.
Buxton Glacier (54°26′South 36°12′West) is a glacier flowing northeast into Saint Andrews Bay, South Georgia.