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Rmtr/Vwiow a N E W S B U L L E T I N rmtr/vwiow A N E W S B U L L E T I N p u b l i s h e d q u a r t e r l y b y t h e NEW ZEALAND ANTARCTIC SOCIETY MAN AGAINST MOUNTAIN New Zealand party camp on sea ice, Mt. Herschel in rear. Vol. 5, No. 2 50th ISSUE JUNE, 1968 NOIXIOSonI •V)6i "avw 'aNvivaz M3N'noionitum A3A8I1S t SONY! JO J.N3WiyVd3a ki NMVHC] (Vf) iuouth*- .--U_ife sSSJ***"X ^ \ / >SSK 1 PnrW sv,. $fca&r/A An M|I»H. a V \ l N V i n ) p j A $ _ < ) / \ i ^ —t»)i|iM JO)i>oij»IH'l^ Cf n) epji^-A*' "^ I • / r//»;*i|i*irj; ■| Juin».->iW » fzw; i h»h<wc ' VINVWSVJ. tmoAs* (vnouTjado- ueu A|iJTJoduia£ ^*"v« sn W||!M astcl p3JJ3i»U*JL O.NV1V3Z M3N 4f3llcH+ X|ue nsFq jauiuin$ 4J05$ sasrqjauiiun^ pup jajui/V\ vnvvxsnv WAHWAIB(B1PI1(DW (Successor to "Antarctic News Bulletin") Vol. 5, No. 2 50th ISSUE JUNE, 1968 Editor: L. B. Quartermain, M.A., 1 Ariki Road, Wellington, E.2, New Zealand. Assistant Editor: Mrs R. H. Wheeler. Business Communications, Subscriptions, etc., to: Secretary, New Zealand Antarctic Society, P.O. Box 2110, Wellington, N.Z. CONTENTS EXPEDITIONS New Zealand Mountaineering and Geology in Northern Victoria Land: Sir Edmund Hillary The McMurdo Ice Shelf Project: A. J. Heine Another Summer: Just as Long but not as Hot: E. C. Young Eleven Years of Temperature Records at Scott Base: Donald C. Thompson Japan South Africa Belgium France Chile United States United Kingdom Australia U.S.S.R 91,92 International Weddell Sea Oceanographic Expedition 101 Sub-Antarctic Islands Antarctic Stations, 13: Amundsen-Scott South Pole New Zealand's Head of State Visits the Antarctic: Brigadier Sir Bernard Fergusson New Zealander's Find Proves Antarctic Animal Life How Labyrinthodont was Found: P. J. Barrett The Role of Fuel in Antarctic Discovery and Research: Sir Charles Wright He Almost Became a New Zealander (E. E. Goodale] The Reader Writes Antarctic Bookshelf Society News June, 1968 OUR 50th ISSUE We have pleasure in presenting our readers with the fiftieth issue of "ANTARCTIC". The journal has been published quarterly since the first issue, in March 1956: this first number having 24 pages. The first number of volume 2, March 1959, had 44 pages, and the issue of March 1968, beginning volume 5, had 60. "ANTARCTIC" is the successor to the cyclostyled "ANTARCTIC NEWS BULLETIN", which first appeared in "August 1950 as a two- page foolscap naws-sheet. The last issue, the 20th. in December 1955, had 15 pages. The Editor v/ishes to take this opportunity to thank most sincerely the many good friends throughout the world who over these !7 years have by their interest and active help made the production of these journals possible, and the Editor's task a pleasant one. Special thanks are due to Mrs R. H. Wheeler and Mr J. Holmes (Bob) Miller, who for some years have given invaluable assistance in the editorial work . SCAR X TRIBUTE TO P.E.V. At the "Polar Meeting" held under The 10th meeting of SCAR, the the auspices of the German Society Scientific Committee on Antarctic for Polar Research at Stuttgart on Research, is to be held in Tokyo from October 8-11, the normal course of June 10 to 15. The New Zealand dele lectures was interrupted for the pre gate will be Dr. R. W. Willett, who sentation to Paul-Emile Victor, Dir is Chairman of the Working Group ector of Expeditions Polaires Fran- on Geology. Dr. R. D. Adams will caises, of the first newly-founded also attend, as an adviser; he is Sec Weyprecht Medal of the Society. retary to the Working Group on The chairman, Prof. B. Brockamp, Solid Earth Geophysics. These expressed the organisation's high Working Groups will meet during esteem for the great French Polar the week prior to the full SCAR explorer. Paul Victor in February, meeting. 1947, obtained the permission of the French Government to organise two scientific expeditions, one to Adelie LOGISTICS CONFERENCE Land, Antarctica, and one to Green An Antarctic Treaty Powers Meet land. From this date onwards, Pro ing of experts on Antarctic Logistics fessor Brockamp recalled, French will be held at Keidanren Kaikan, Polar expeditions have been — and Japan, from June 3 to 8. Keidanren are — under the experienced guid Kaikan means the building of Fed ance of this capable and courageous eration of Economic Organizations scientist, who has developed new and the building has several confer techniques (in, for example, the ence rooms. Admiral Panzarini, ulilisalion of aircraft in polar ex RADM Abbot, and Sir Vivian l-uchs ploration and research) and has done are expected to be present at the so much by his energy, ability, lead meeting. The Japanese team will be ership, literary and artistic skill and headed by Prof. T. Nagata, and New — not least, his sense of humour, to Zealand will be represented by Mr. advance the world's knowledge of R. B. Thomson. the polar regions. June, 1968 ZEALAND'S HEAD OF STATE VISITS THE ANTARCTIC by BRIGADIER SIR BERNARD FERGUSSON ISir Bernard was Governor-General of New Zealand from 1962 to 1967. We are indebted to His Excellency for this lively account of his visit to the Ross Dependency, the first visit by a New Zealand Head of State to New Zealand's Antarctic territory; in fact, the first visit by any Commonwealth Head of State to the Antarctic.— Ed.l As I write, we have been back in of hot steak, coffee and apple-juice.apple-juice, our Scottish home for less than a WeWe sawsaw nothingnothing untiluntil 55 p.m., when week, and are still in the throes of thethe huge huge bulk bulk of of CapeCape AdareAdare shoved unpacking. Yesterday I came across itsits snoutsnout aboveabove thethe cloudsclouds somesome fif-fif some relics of my visit to the Ant- teenteen milesmiles toto starboard.starboard. AnAn hour or arctic in 1963, in the shape of string soso laterlater wewe saw Cape Royds, and vests, and a green anorak modelled shortlyshortly afterwardsafterwards we touched down on the red one which was issued toon on thethe runway,runway, toto bebe greetedgreeted by me for the trip, and which I handed Russell Rawle, the Leader, and the back to Mr. Markham only with wholewhole of ofhis his team team barbar thethe cook.cook. I great reluctance. (I reckoned that hadhad metmet Mr.Mr. RawleRawle aa fewfew months green would startle our local pheas- earlier in Wellington, when he had ants and woodcock less than red, learned what was coming to him: and would also be less provocative me. to the Ayrshire and Galloway bulls ,., . .. , KT , ., with which these parts are infested.) We.We travelledrax'elle^ *%by NodwellNodwell cater-cater T ist Tas I. was, resuming. pillar unpacking to Scottarrivedpillar theto Base, Scottcook ran Base, andup my and asstanda: as wewe """*" the "cw P°f.ue ap onarrived lhe Basethe cook flagpole: ran up mya courtesystanda: on the Base flagpole: a courtesy -a* still a tending the whichwhich 1I hadn'thadn-t expected,expccted, so my village school when we left here for hncnmbosom cum>h»h swelled nilall thothe mr.r-0 more *,A+i> with pride. Drinks were followed by a ral letters from New magnificent dinner, which was also Zealand, there was one from Mr. attended by the Admiral and several Quartermain, asking me whether I of his officers from McMurdo. I was would write a short article for the accommodated in undeserved luxury fiftieth number of "Antarctic". I in the sick bay, and shewn how to found the coincidence irresistible; so block out the streaming sun, when here are a few memories of those I went to bed, by inserting a round eight happy days. This house, inci wooden shutter in my porthole. dentally, is only sixteen miles by Others on the Base at that time were road, and less as the seagull flies, Graham Billing, the author and from Stranraer, where Sir James broadcaster; Mr. Ponder, who had Clark Ross was born in 1800. designed the accommodation; and I left Christchurch at 10 a.m. on Captain (now Chief Inspector) L. D. the 6th November in a U.S. Navy Bridge, whose role wasn't clear to C 130, as so many others have done me at first, until I discovered that before and since, with Admiral Jim he was in charge of my safety. I Reedy (better known as "Sunshine") was never quite sure whether he who was then commanding DEEP wanted to stop me from falling down FREEZE, Mr. Markham and several crevasses, or whether he was praying others. We left the coast at Oamaru, that I should do so, to give him the and lunched at 1 p.m. off a vast meal fun of hauling me out again. June, 1968 Having slept gloriously among all wind there, and we had to content the medicines, 1 thought 6.30 would ourselves by talking to the New Zea be a reasonable hour to get up; so land Leader there by radio. Instead, I pulled the shutter from the port we flew on and dropped supplies to hole, and was astonished afresh by the Northern Party under the re the brilliance of the sun and of the doubtable and legendary Mr. Miller. colours. I spent the forenoon looking I included in the drop a bottle of round the Base, visiting the work whisky, one of a few dozen I had shops and the laboratories, and brought out with me from Scotland making the acquaintance of the hus from a firm called Whigham, Fergus- kies.
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