Zdeněk Souček, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Zdeněk Souček

Czech doctor and arctic explorer

Date of Birth: 09-Sep-1917

Place of Birth: Brno, South Moravian Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 24-Dec-1967

Profession: physician, explorer

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Zdenek "Frank" Soucek (9 September 1917 Brno – 24 December 1967 Macquarie Island) was Australian physician, polar and tropics explorer and traveler. Soucek gained his doctorate in 1947 at Charles University in Prague.
He started to work in Prachatice where he got to know his future wife.
He emigrated to the West Germany in 1949 and one year later to Australia where he joined Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions.
He spent year 1952 on Macquarie Island, however he worked on New Ireland during 1953–1959.
Besides tropical medicine he did an anthropology research here.
After his return to ANARE, he participated in 12 Antarctic expeditions serving mostly as a physician.
He studied influence of extreme conditions on human organism and bacteria in gastrointestinal tracts of polar birds and mammals.
He worked mainly on Macquarie Island and at Wilkes Station. He died of heart attack on Macquarie Island.
A cremation urn with his ash is placed in Vodnany, Czech Republic.