{{Short description|New Zealand surveyor, explorer and conservationist (1919–1986)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=January 2020}} [[File:Sir Edmund Hillary, Sir William Appleton and F. Holmes Miller with an unidentified instrument, 1956.jpg|thumb|Miller with Sir Edmund Hillary (left) and Sir William Appleton (centre) in 1956]] '''Sir Joseph Holmes Miller''' {{post-nominals|country=NZL|OBE|size=85%}} (12 February 1919 – 6 February 1986) was a New Zealand surveyor, Antarctic explorer and conservationist. He was born in Waimate on 12 February 1919.<ref name="DNZB Miller">{{DNZB|title=Joseph Holmes Miller|first= Robin|last= Ormerod|id=5m50|accessdate=17 September 2016}}</ref>
Miller was the leader of the survey team (which also comprised Robert Dick, Ralph Moir, and R. Litt) on the 1949 New Zealand American Fiordland Expedition.''<ref name="Poole1951">{{CiteQ|Q125475906}}</ref>''
In May 1958, Miller was awarded the Polar Medal,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.nzlii.org/nz/other/nz_gazette/1958/31.pdf |title=Polar Medal |date=22 May 1958 |work=New Zealand Gazette |page=667 |issue=31}}</ref> and a month later in the 1958 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, in recognition of his role as deputy leader of the New Zealand Trans-Antarctic Expedition.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=41406 |date=12 June 1958 |page=3554 |supp=3}}</ref> In the 1979 New Year Honours, he was knighted as a Knight Bachelor, for services to the Ross Dependency, conservation and surveying.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=47725 |date=30 December 1978 |page=39 |supp=3}}</ref>
The Miller Range in Antarctica is named in his honour.<ref name="DNZB Miller"/>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Miller, Holmes}} Category:1919 births Category:1986 deaths Category:New Zealand surveyors Category:New Zealand conservationists Category:People from Waimate Category:New Zealand Officers of the Order of the British Empire Category:New Zealand Knights Bachelor Category:New Zealand and the Antarctic Category:New Zealand recipients of the Polar Medal
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