Adrian Goodenough Hayter MBE MC (22 December 1914 – 14 June 1990) was a New Zealand soldier, sailor, Antarctic expedition leader and author.
[4] Hayter left the army in 1947, but returned to his regiment during the early years of the Malayan Emergency, and later became the chief instructor at the Jungle Warfare School.
After learning the basics of celestial navigation by correspondence, he sailed to New Zealand via Gibraltar, the Suez Canal, India, Malaya and Australia, finally arriving in Westport in 1956.
[3] Hayter returned to Britain in 1961 and purchased the Norwegian-built 25-foot sloop Valkyr, which he sailed solo to New Zealand via the Canary Islands and the Panama Canal.
[3] After his return to New Zealand, Hayter became the sailing instructor at the newly opened Cobham Outward Bound School at Anakiwa.