{{Short description|Australian explorer and filmmaker}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}} {{Use Australian English|date=November 2019}} {{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = | name = Clark Carter | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name above --> | birth_date = 1984 | birth_place = Australia | death_date = <!-- {{death date and age|2011|08|26|1929|2|2|df=yes}} --> | death_place = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = <!-- {{coord|LAT|LONG|type:landmark|display=inline}} --> | monuments = | education = UNSW Sydney | alma_mater = | occupation = Filmmaker | known_for = Adventurer Filmmaker | years_active = | era = | employer = | title = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | spouse = | partner = <!-- (unmarried long-term partner) --> | children = | parents = | relatives = }} '''Clark Carter''' (born 1984) is an Australian explorer and filmmaker.<ref name="australiangeographic">{{cite web |last1=Carter |first1=Clark |title=Filming in the field with Clark Carter |url=https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/photography/photography-tips/2010/02/filming-in-the-field-with-clark-carter/ |website=australiangeographic |publisher=Australian Geographic |accessdate=22 August 2019}}</ref> Clark Carter and Chris Bray became the first recorded people to walk across Victoria Island in the Arctic Archipelago.<ref name="IF">{{cite web |last1=Feletto |first1=Adelle |title=Clark Carter’s Arctic Circle Adventures to appear on the big screen |url=https://www.if.com.au/clark-carters-arctic-circle-adventures-to-appear-on-the-big-screen/ |website=If.com |publisher=IF |accessdate=13 November 2019}}</ref>
==Education== Carter is a Film Studies graduate of UNSW Sydney B.Arts (Media and Communications) majoring in film.<ref name="UNSW Sydney">{{cite web |title=Boys' own adventure |url=https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/students/boys-own-adventure |website=newsroom.unsw.edu |publisher=UNSW Sydney |accessdate=22 August 2019}}</ref><ref name="anzec">{{cite web |title=Clark Carter |url=http://anzec.org/profile/clarkcarter/ |website=anzec |publisher=The Australian and New Zealand Chapter of the Explorers Club |accessdate=22 August 2019}}</ref>
==Career== At 21 years old, Carter attempted to cross Victoria Island in the Arctic. The exploration was cut short because of weather and other calamities. Carter returned with his partner Chris Bray and completed the crossing. The pair filmed both of the expeditions and the film was made into a documentary.<ref name="CBC Radio Canada">{{cite web |title=Aussie adventurers to try again with Victoria Island trek |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/aussie-adventurers-to-try-again-with-victoria-island-trek-1.754966 |website=cbc.ca |publisher=CBC Radio Canada |accessdate=22 August 2019}}</ref>
===The Crossing (exploration of Victoria Island in the Arctic)=== *The Crossing Director Julian Harvey (film about Carter's crossing of Victoria Island in the Arctic.<ref name="Herald">{{cite news |last1=Hawker |first1=Philippa |title=The Crossing review: Clark Carter, Chris Bray's boys' own misadventures |url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/the-crossing-review-clark-carter-chris-brays-boys-own-misadventures-20140423-374aq.html |accessdate=22 August 2019 |publisher=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=24 April 2014}}</ref> *The Crossing was nominated for the Foxtel Australian Documentary cash prize of $10,000 at the Sydney Film Festival.<ref name="UNSW Sydney"/> *The crossing won the audience award for Best Documentary 2013.<ref name="IMDB">{{cite web |title=Sydney Film Festival 2013 |url=https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000637/2013/1/ |website=IMDB |publisher=IMDB.com, Inc. |accessdate=22 August 2019}}</ref>
===2012=== Clark Carter and Ben Turner attempted to row from Wilsons Promontory in Victoria to Hobart, Tasmania. After just a few days, the boat capsized and the trip was abandoned.<ref name="MARGARET BOWLING">{{cite web |title=BASS STRAIT 2012 |url=https://margaretbowling.co.uk/expeditions-adventures/bass-strait-2012/ |website=margaretbowling |publisher=MARGARET BOWLING |accessdate=22 August 2019}}</ref>
===2014=== Carter was an Associate Producer of a documentary called The Connection (2014).<ref>{{cite web|last1=Roston|first1=Tom|title="The Connection" and How Documentaries Can Be Good Medicine (Part 1)|url=https://www.pbs.org/pov/blog/docsoup/2014/10/the-connection-and-how-documentaries-can-be-good-medicine-part-1/#.VSSMiykVdFI|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141016022247/http://www.pbs.org/pov/blog/docsoup/2014/10/the-connection-and-how-documentaries-can-be-good-medicine-part-1/#.VSSMiykVdFI|url-status=dead|archive-date=16 October 2014|website=PBS.org|accessdate=8 April 2015}}</ref> directed by former ABC journalist Shannon Harvey<ref>{{cite web|title=The Connection|url=http://www.whatsnewinfitness.com.au/the-connection|website=What's New In Fitness|accessdate=8 April 2015}}</ref>
===Awards=== *Australian Geographic Society's 2008 Spirit of Adventure Award<ref name="ABC">{{cite news |last1=McKenzie |first1=Brad |title=Richard talks to adventurers Chris Cray and Clark Carter |url=http://www.abc.net.au/local/audio/2008/10/29/2404804.htm |accessdate=22 August 2019 |publisher=ABC Radio Melbourne |date=29 October 2008}}</ref>
===Books=== *The 1000 Hour Day: Two Adventurers Take on the World's Harshest Island<ref name="The 1000 Hour Day">{{cite book |last1=Bray |first1=Chris |title=The 1000 Hour Day: Two Adventurers Take on the World's Harshest Island |date=1 November 2010 |publisher=Murdoch Books |location=Sydney, Australia |isbn=978-1741969672}}</ref>
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