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A News Bulletin New Zealand Antarctic Society A NEWS BULLETIN published quarterly by the NEW ZEALAND ANTARCTIC SOCIETY ON HISTORIC GROUND A pair of Adelie Penguins nest in an old box left at Cape Royds by Shackleton's expedifion, 1907-09. Photo: Dominion Museum, N.Z. VOL. 2, No. 7 SEPTEMBER, '1960 Antarctica • Nd.cquarie r bOOS. O· E. w. DRAwN Bv ~ANOS 10. )'JIl.\(T 0[1'1..1': 1 (Successor to, "Antarctic News Bulletin") VOL. 2, No. 7 SEPTEMBER, 1960 Editor: L. B. Quartermain, M.A., 1 Ariki Road, Wellington, E.2, New Zealand. Business Communications, Subscriptions, etc., to: Secretary, New Zealand Antarctic Society, P.O. Box 2110, Wellington, N.Z. READ THIS IF YOU WANT TO ANTARCTI'C C'ONFERENCE SEE THE ANTARCTIC A conference is to be held follow­ The Superintendent of the Ant­ ing ratification by all twelve na­ arctic Division, D.S.I.R., has invited tions of the Antarctic treaty signed the Council of the New Zealand last year.banning military weapons Antarctic Society to nominate' for s~itable .from Antarctica and providing for selection volunteers for up international co-operation in scienti­ to fic research. Officials of the Aus'tra­ TWO MONTHS' SERVICE IN lian External Affairs Department ex­ THE ANTARCTIC. pect that the conference wlll be held The TWO MEN finally selected in Canberra early next year. by the Superintendent' will travel Four of the twelve nations, the to McMurdo SGlUnd by United United Kingdom, Belgium, South States ship about mid-December to Africa and the United' States, have join the _,:":~Nt:t- ratified the treaty. Final drafts of o , RE~rORATION Australia's ratifying legislation are HUTS PARTY being prepared, New Zealand is ex­ (see page 248), and will return to pected to r<;ltify the t~eaty shortly, New Zealand in late January. and the remainder, Norway; Japan, They will NQT be paid, and.will the Soviet Union, France, Argentine, be expected to provide their own and Chile are expected to do so be­ personal clothing. The Antarctic fore the end of the ye:ai'; Division will provide food, trans­ port and accommodation from time The United States Senate ratified of leaving New Zealand to return, the treaty by 66 to 21. and special Antarctic clothing. A Bill giving effect to the treaty . "Selected applicants will require was introduced in the New Zealand to undergo a medical examination. House of Representatives on August Appointees will be under the con­ 30 by the Prime Minister,' Mr. Nash, trol of the :Superintendent, Antarc­ and was read a first time. tic DiVIsion, and In Antarctica will be responsible to the Leader, Scott S.C.A.R. TO MEET IN NEW Base. Conditions of appointment will be supplied on application to ZEALAND the Secretary, New Zealand Ant­ arctic Society, P.O. Box 2110, Wel­ S.C.A.R., the special committee on lington, to whom applications must Antarctic Research of the Inter­ be sent national Council of Scientific Unions, has been invited to meet next year NOT LATER THAN OCTOBER 15, in Wellington, New Zealand, and the giving age, interests, and general invitation was accepted at the meet­ qualifications for work in the ing held in Cambridge, England, Antarctic. from August 28 to September 3. 246 ANTARCTIC September 1960 NEW ZEALAND PREPARING FOR BUSY SUMMER PROGRAMME Although New Zealand is not this summer mounting so many field journeys as last year, preparations are well in hand for a varied programme of exploration and research stretchin~ from Cape Hallett in the north, as far as the Shackleton Inlet in the south. The Scott Base wintering party Captain P. J. Hunt and G. J. will number 12, comprising: Matterson respectively. The pur­ pose will be to explore the coastal Lieut. L. D. BRIDGE: Leader. area between Barne Inlet and V. E. DONNELLY: Administrative Shackleton Inlet to a depth of 40 Officer. or 50 miles. Both leaders have C. A. CLEMENTS: Senior Scien- wintered a,t Scott Base after taking tist. part in the main southern sno-cat R. SHANAHAN: Scientist. and dog-team expedition last year. R. S. CRANFIELD: Technician. It is expected that after moving P. C. S. GRAHAM: Technician. south across the Ross Ice Shelf U. J. SOBIECKI: Technician. one team will penetrate the area L. O. DUFF: Senior Maintenance adjacent 'to Cape Selborne (80 0 Officer (Mechanical). 20' S.) where the sno-cat crevasse W. R. LOGIE: Maintenance (elec­ accident of November, 1959, re­ trical). sulted in the death of Lieut. T. B. A. M. FOLEY: Maintenance Couzens, and then work south. The (buildings). other team will push further south W. H. DEVERALL: Radio Officer. over the ice-shelf, and will pene­ K. L. FAIRCLOUGH: Cook. trate the coastal mountains in the area of Beaumont Bay (81 0 25' S.) In addition, two members of the 0 Southern survey party will winter or Cape Wilson (82 17' S.). over at Scott Base: The allocation of personnel to P. M. OTWAY: Assistant Sur­ these two teams will be decided veyor. later. Those taking part in the W. H. HERBERT: Assistant Sur­ expedition will be, in addition to veyor. Hunt and Matterson, W. H. Her­ bert and P. M. Otway, assistant During the summer months it is surveyors, who will winter over, expected that two main groups will D. R. Goldschmidt and C. N. be doing field work; a geological Cooper, field assistanits, and M. G. and survey expedition working in Laird and D. N. B. Skinner, the coastal area of southern Vic­ geologists. Goldschmidt was with toria Land between the Barne Inlet 0 last summer's southern field party (80 IS'S.) and the Shackleton Inlet (82 0 22' S.), and a Victoria Univer­ and Cooper with the New Zealand sity of Wellington expedition work­ Alpine Club's expedition in the ing in the KoettUtz Glacier region. Beardmore Glacier area; while Herbert has done field work with the Falkland Islands Dependencies SOUTHERN PARTY Survey. The geological and survey expedi­ tion will be in two groups, led by -see Stop press p 248 Ssptember 1960 ANTARCTIC 247 VICTORIA UNIVERSITY BIOLOGY EXPEDITION B. E. Reid, who last year car­ ried out extensive biological r~ It is expected that for the third search at Hallett Station, where year in succession an experition he wintered, will again go south from the Victoria University of this summer. During October and Wellington will be work·ing in the November he will tbe at Cape Ross Dependency. In the coming Royds and he will then return to season the area to be covered will Hallett. At both places he will be further south than the Dry make re-observations of the pen­ Valley region in which Dr. Bull's guin and skua rookeries in order party in 1958-59 and Dr. Balham's to complete the work undertaken last summer were working. last year. He will be assisted by one of the present Scott Base This year the University team wintering party. proposes to work in the lower Koettlitz Glacier area, south"weS't OCEANOGRAPHY across McMurdo Sound from Cape The emphasis in oceanographi­ Armitage. Parties from Scott's first cal work during the coming season ("Discovery") expedition, 1902-04, will be on a study of water move­ were puzzled by the apparently ments in McMurdo Sound, includ­ "decadent" nature of the Koettlitz ing currents from under the ice­ Glacier snout. One of the major shelf moving between Ross Island tasks which the Victoria University and the mainland. In late October party is setting itself is to examine A. E. Gilmour of the New Zea­ the glacial moraines in an attempt land Oceanographic Institute with to secure definite evidence of the two other members af the Institute recession af the glacier, its nature staff, assisted by two af the scien­ and timing. tists wintering-over at Scott Base, will study from shore-based sta­ Details of the expedition's pro­ tions the currents under the ice­ gramme have not yet been finalised. shelf. The personnel as at present planned After the arrival of H.M.N.Z.S. is - R. H. Wheeler, Geography "Endeavour" in McMurdo Sound Dept., V.U.W., Leader; Dr. Colin the work will be continued from Bull, leader of the 1958-59 V.UW. the ship. expedition and member of earlier Travelling south on "Endeavour" Greenland expeditions, Physicist; G. Harlen and another scientist Dr. H. R. Black, of the United of the Oceanographic Institute, States National Science Foundation assisted by two appointees to the at present studying in New Zea­ Antarctic Division, will carry out land, Geologist; lan H. G. Willis, further oceanographical work. In­ V.U.W. geology sutdent and a mem­ vestigations may be made on the ber of last year's University party, line Macquarie Island-Balleny Is­ Geologist; Roger Cooper, also lands as planned for last year, a geology student of the University. when bad weather interrupted the programme. In McMurdo Sound they will carry out marine bio­ One more member has still to logical studies within a range of be selected. A gravimeter will be 100 miles from Scott Base and carried by the party, and Wheeler, extend the work already under­ Bull and Cooper Will carry out a taken by Gilmour's hydrological gravity survey as well as ordinary party, thus completing phase 3 of survey work with theodolite. last summer's planned programme. 248 ANTARCTIC September \960 1. f. THE OLD HUTS AT THE BASE While it is not planned to erect During the period November­ any new buildings at Scott .B~se January a New Zealand party will this year, some of the eXlstmg be working at Scott's old hut ~t buildincrs will be reconstructed so Cape Evans and at Shackleton s as to C>provide additional storage hut at Cape Royds, with the object space.
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