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A News Bu Lletin New Zealand Antarctic Society A N E W S B U L L E T I N published b y t h e NEW ZEALAND ANTARCTIC SOCIETY Z. ■' »■ • —: - • -r- T *-"V* ^?i. GUARDIAN OF THE LAKES T. R. Haskell of VUWAE 6 stands on grotesque rock, probably formed by wind-blown sand and salt erosion, in the Taylor Valley east of Lake Bonney. Photo: W. Prebble. VOL 3, No. i I SEPTEMBER, 1964 AUSTRALIA Winter and Summer bases Scott S u m m e r b a s e o n l y + S k y - l l i Jointly operated base Hallett NEW ZEALAND (U.S.-N.2) Transferred base Wilkes U.StoAu:- TASMANIA Temporanly non-operational....KSyow;i , Campbell I. (N.Z) • Macquari I Aust) -^oss DePe,ld N. Z. A& %J\i\\e*(US.-Mr, . Scott Base- (YZJ ' ,1 Wilkes— 't Little Rockfo US.to Aust Y S 4 N A A P / " 1 (U.SJ "Byrd(«.s;' +Vostok , .(USSR) •\^Amundsen- Scott (US) _ ,A N Tl A R DaviO , »k^I '•5' #?t ,.<-V r* Maw«Sn"\ "^(Aust) \{_ VffiU ^/H«iy V*«S Maud \ v ^ X ; •Marion I. (5./U DRAWN BY DEPARTMENT OF LANDS £ SURVEY WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND, SEP. 1962. fit L (Successor to "Antarctic News Bulletin") VOL. 3, No. SEPTEMBER, 1964 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. HONOURED 140 DAYS AT THE The following Antarctic veterans BOTTOM OF THE WORLD resident in New Zealand have been elected Honorary Life Members of This is the title of the National the New Zealand Antarctic Society. Film Unit's forthcoming Antarctic C. R. Ford, Auckland, 1902-04. film (see June issue, page 429). The F. Rooney, Lower Hutt, "Nimrod". film opens with a Hercules plane M. McCarthy, Lyttelton, A.B., "Terra Nova". runway in McMurdo Sound. "The W. Burton, Christchurch, Engin long night has gone, and the white eer, "Terra Nova". continent again tilts into the dawn W. McDonald, Christchurch, A.B., of summer". "Terra Nova". Honorary Life Membership has The wide-screen colour film was also been conferred on another shot by camera-men Kel. Fowler "Discovery" man, and Sam Grau during a 4i month C. H. Hare, Queensland, 1902-03, assignment in which all aspects of who was New Zealand born and New Zealand's 1963-64 Antarctic pro was living in New Zealand when he gramme were covered, from the joined "Discovery" for Scott's first scientific work and the communal expedition. He wintered in the Ant life at Scott Basc to the arduous arctic during 1902. dog-sledging journeys in previously Mr. Ford and Mr. Hare are, we un traversed mountain regions. believe, the only "Discovery" men Still living. He will be a dull New Zealander who will not follow with absorbed PILOT SCHEME interest this half-hour raising of the curtain on the life our men are "Man has shown in the Antarctic, on an extremely small scale, what leading In the far South. he could do if he acted as an intelli gent being. He could do as much on a world-wide scale. But, for that, the "VOSTOK 900" most important requirement is that human beings should understand Viewers in Wellington are to have their calling as men; that man the privilege of seeing the outstand should cease behaving as a predat ing Australian documentary Vostok ing wolf in his relations with other 900 on Channel 1 at 8.33 p.m. on men, and that he should so organise Friday, September 11. The Dunedin his affairs as to make it possible to (DNTV 2) telecast is scheduled for live in peace on his own planet be Sunday, September 27, at 10.35 p.m. fore reaching out for others". This record of the notable Wilkcs- Vostok trek led by New Zealander Paul-Emile Victor in his Bob Thomson has been acclaimed "Man and the Conquest in Australia as an exceptionally fine of the Poles." telecast. September, 1964 NEW ZEALAND FIELD WORK HAS AN ALTERED PATTERN As forecast, the coming summer will see a departure from the customary New Zealand pattern of one or two long dog-sledging journeys. Instead, the emphasis will be on small parties air-lifted to their operational area, where they will each devote a few weeks to the intensive study of a limited locality with certain specific objectives. Dog-teams, motor toboggans and None of these ranges has so far man-hauling will all be used, and no been studied intensively by a group party will contain more than four ol competent geologists. The New men. A feature of the manning is Zealand team lor 1964-65 will be led the solid core of men experienced by Malcolm Laird of the Geological in Antarctic field work. Survey, Greymouth, who was geolo gist of the Southern Field Party LITTLE KNOWN RANGES undcl" Captain P. Hunt which work ed north of the Nimrod Glacier One group will study the geology nearer the coast in 1960-61. With of the Holyoake, Cobham and Laird will be two young geologists, Swithinbank mountain ranges of G. D. Mansergh and J. M. C. Chap- Victoria Land. These ranges are pell, and a field assistant D. Mas- comparatively newly-named features sain, who has wintered at Scott lying inland from the portion of Base this year after extensive field the Ross Ice Shelf which extends work last summer, from 81°30'S. to 82°27'S., north of The party will be flown in to the the Nimrod Glacier. ranges early in November, and will be set down at a point to be select- The Holyoake Range, named after ed by earlier air reconnaissance, the New Zealand Prime Minister, They will work in the area for extends for 35 miles parallel with about six and a half weeks, the coast-line in approximately 159° The air reconnaissance will be 30'E. about 40 miles west of the carried out late in October if con- coastal Nash Range, named after a ditions permit, when the Scott Basc former Prime Minister. Its southern Leader will accompany the team end. 82°27'S., is about 30 miles west leader to select suitable sites, of Cape Wilson. On or about December 20 Laird's ,„. ^ , , „ . , team will be air-lifted south across The Cobham Range is named thc Nimrod Glacier to the area of after an ex-Governor-Genera o New Ml Markham (82°50'S., 160°30'E.) in 7ealand It is roughly parallel with the Queen Elizabeth Range, when le Holyoake Range but some eight lhcy will work for aboul two and ., miles further west, i.e. further in- na,-f weeks unli, Januarv 8> i965. GEOLOGISTS' RANGE A second four-man team will be led by P. C. Le Couteur, a geologist who was a member of V. R. Mc Gregor's geological team which worked south ot the Ross Ice Shelf last summer. Le Couteur was evacu ated after falling 60 feel into a cre vasse. His companions will be M. R. Gregory and R. G. Adamson, geologists and W. R. Lucy, surveyor, who has wintered this vear at Scott Base. September, 1964 This team will be flown to the they will manhaul and backpack to Geologists' Range about the begin thc Allan Nunatak and in mid- ning of December. Working with December will be transferred to the two dog-teams for approximately six Mt Fleming-Mistake Peak area. Mt weeks, they will be air-lifted back Fleming (77°33'S., 160°08'E.) lies at to McMurdo about mid-January. the head of the Wright Valley, and The Geologists' Range is unknown was named by the T.A.E. Northern country. The mountains were seen Party in 1957-58, of which Warren at a distance by Captain Hunt's was a member. Mistake Peak is team in 1960-61. The line of peaks about 8 miles north of Mt Fleming. lies about 40 miles south-west of From here they will be flown back the Cobham Range. to McMurdo aoout December 22. NORTHERN PARTY VOLCANICS Ihe Northern Party, a geological A two-man team, probably A. and survey team, will be led by Ewart, leader, and R. G. Adamson, both geologists, will work in the Guyon Warren, an experienced field Black Island, Cape Bird, Cape geologist who was a member of Sir Edmund Hillary's original Scott Royds, Hut Point and Scott Base Base team in 1956-57, and was one areas between November 1 and of the first party to climb Mt December 1, in order to study the Harmsworth, west of the Skelton petrology and mineralogy of the Glacier. In the following summer he Ross Island volcanic rocks for com w a s a m e m b e r o f t h e T. A . E . parison with those of New Zealand. Northern Party which explored the V U WA E 9 length of the Mawson, Fry, Mackay, Debenham and Taylor Glaciers of The ninth Victoria University of Victoria Land. Wellington Expedition will be led by Warwick M. Prebble, geologist With Warren will be two other and experienced Antarctic research geologists, P. F. Ballance and W. A. man. Overall, the party will com Watters and a paleobotanist, J. A. prise 11 men, but not all will par Townrow. ticipate in the same projects. In This team will be working in the addition to Prebble they are R. high country at the head of the Hoare (deputy leader), physicist; Mackay Glacier (77°S.) in northern Dr P.
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