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Flnitflrcililcl flNiTflRCililCl A NEWS BULLETIN published quarterly by the NEW ZEALAND ANTARCTIC SOCIETY (INC) svs-r^s* ■jffim Nine noses pointing home. A team of New Zealand huskies on the way back to Scott Base after a run on the sea ice of McMurdo Sound. Black Island is in the background. Pholo by Colin Monteath \f**lVOL Oy, KUNO. O OHegisierea Wellington, atNew kosi Zealand, uttice asHeadquarters, a magazine. n-.._.u—December, -*r\n*1981 SOUTH GEORGIA SOUTH SANDWICH Is- / SOUTH ORKNEY Is £ \ ^c-c--- /o Orcadas arg \ XJ FALKLAND Is /«Signy I.uk > SOUTH AMERICA / /A #Borga ) S y o w a j a p a n \ £\ ^> Molodezhnaya 4 S O U T H Q . f t / ' W E D D E L L \ f * * / ts\ xr\ussR & SHETLAND>.Ra / / lj/ n,. a nn\J c y DDRONNING d y ^ j MAUD LAND E N D E R B Y \ ) y ^ / Is J C^x. ' S/ E A /CCA« « • * C",.,/? 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AUSTRALIA 14 Bellingshausen ussr ■ * SA SOUTH AFRICA UK UNITLt) KINGDOM USA. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 0 1 0 0 m USSH UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST I Ice Shelf REPUBLICS flN.THRCiTjIC (successor to 'Antarctic News Bulletin') Vol. 9, No. 8. 104th Issue. December, 1981 Editor: J. M. CAFFIN, 35 Chepstow Avenue, Christchurch, 5. Address all contributions, inquiries etc. to the Editor. CONTENTS ARTICLES MINERAL RESOURCES 283-285 RESEARCH COMMUNITY 248 POLAR ACTIVITIES NEW ZEALAND 250-259 AUSTRALIA 260-262 UNiTED STATES 263-268 UNITED KINGDOM 269-272 SOUTH AFRICA 272 JAPAN 273-277 CHINA 277 SOVIET UNION 278-280 CHILE 280 WEST GERMANY 281-282 NORWAY 282 GENERAL TRANSGLOBE 286 TOURISM 287 ANTARCTIC BOOKSHELF 288-289 OBITUARIES 289-291 NEW AIR SERVICE 292 ISSN 0003-5327 © New Zealand Antarctic Society (Inc) 1978. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any way without the prior permission of the publishers. ANTARCTIC December 1981 NEW ZEALAND FIELD mi ,#■' an WORK BEGINS New Zealand's Antarctic research programme for 1981-82, which began officially on October 5, was not materially affected by bad weather and severe solar flares which caused a communications black-out and delayed flights from Christchurch to McMurdo Sta tion in the first weeks of the season. By the middle of this month field parties were at work in the mountains of Northern Victoria Land 600km north of Scott Base, on Mt Erebus, in the dry valleys of Vic toria Land, at Cape Bird, and around McMurdo Sound. Early this month the Royal New goodbye to their leader and presented Zealand Air Force completed 10 flights him with a painting of Scott Base and from Christchurch using Hercules Mt Erebus seen from the pressure ridges. wheeled aircraft to provide logistic sup The painting by Maurice Conly had been port for the New Zealand and United carried south for the occasion by Mr States programmes. This was the 17th McPherson. season that the RNZAF had carried passengers and cargo between New RETURN DELAYED Zealand and Antarctica. The Royal . Although eight members of the team Australian Air Force also made four expected to return to New Zealand on Hercules flights between Christchurch October 12 they had to wait until and McMurdo Station this month as its October 16 because of the delay to air contribution to the logistic pool, and craft flights caused by the communica one training flight late last month. tions black-out, and did not reach New Zealand's summer programme Christchurch until the early morning of began as soon as three New Zealanders October 17. The last of the winter men on the first flights of the season by to leave Scott base were the senior United States Air Force Starlifters technical officer, Stan Whitfield, who reached Scott Base. They were Mr N. C. returned at the end of October to McPherson, executive officer, Antarctic prepare for a year in the sub-Antarctic at Division, Mr A. E. Newton, officer-in- the weather station on Campbell, and charge for the summer, and Mr Martin the dog handler, Allan Taylor, who Taylor, who flew south to conduct passed on his charges to his successor, psychological tests of the 1981 winter Gary Bowcock. team. By the beginning of the third week in On the clear and sunny afternoon of October the summer support staff had October 10 and in a temperature of settled in and was busy preparing for the minus 15.6deg Celsius the 10 men who dispatch of field parties and engaged in spent last winter at Scott Base completed its duties at Scott Base. The first event of their Antarctic service. The leader, Mr the new season was a reconnaissance of John Sims, hauled down his New a route for two fuel train journeys Zealand flag, which had flown at the 120km across the sea ice of McMurdo base since February 16, and handed over Sound to Marble Point. to Tony Newton. During the last two weeks of October In the evening the winter team said two combined United States and New ***£* Dr Chris Adams (left), of the Institute of Nuclear Sciences, and Dr John Bradshaw (right), of the University of Canterbury geology department, tighten the harness ropes of their Nansen sledge before their departure flight from Scott Base to Nor thern Victoria Land on November 7. They are members of one of five New Zealand geological expeditions which will work in the area this season. Antarctic Division Photo Zealand tractor trains carried diesel fuel return to Scott Base. The round trip across the sea ice for Vanda Station, fuel took the three men 13 hours. for United States Navy helicopter opera tions, and equipment for the establish SECOND PARTY ment of a small scientific camp in New On October 14 a second recon Harbour at the mouth of the Taylor naissance party left Scott Base in two Valley. On both journeys the New tracked vehicles. Plans were to reach Zealand teams made ice thickness Marble Point, and also to give new measurements at various points along arrivals experience in sea ice travel. One the western side of McMurdo Sound to of the Army construction team, Bob just north of Marble Point. Dunnachie, replaced Tony Rossiter, and Led by Garth Varcoe, the Antarctic the party was accompanied as far as Division's buldings and services officer, Cape Bernacchi by the snowcraft and the first reconnaissance from Scott Base survival team, Jon Prosser, Lindsay was made on October 11 in one tracked Main, and Nick Cradock. vehicle. Also in the team were Gary Ice measurements were taken on the Bowcock, and Tony Rossiter, one of the journey, and on the first night the party Ministry of Works and Development camped at the Butter Point survival hut. construction team engaged in the It had to be righted before it could be rebuilding of Scott Base. occupied, having been blown over on its As in recent seasons there was a large side during the winter. tide crack in the area of the Strand An early start was made on October Moraines which forced the party to 15, but after patches of broken ice on deviate from its planned route, and the early stages of the journey there was 'tTOy*5rrfl ANTARCTIC December 1981 evidence of rougher ice to come, par sea ice journey. With Garth Varcoe were ticularly outside New Harbour. There Peter Breen, one of the summer support was much upthrust ice at Cape Bernac- staff at Scott Base, Gary Neale, a Lands chi, but the snow cover was reasonably and Surveyor Department surveyor good. Access to the northern ice thick working with the programme this ness station from Marble Point on was season, and Keith Wayman, of the New limited, however, because of large Zealand Fire Service, who had com stands of upthrust ice. pleted a fire safety inspection of Scott When the beach area below the Base. Marble Point airstrip was reached, the Once under way the faster auger rig leading vehicle was driven ashore moved on, and the 22-year-old New through rough ice. As the snow cover in Zealand D4C was soon passed by the the area was relatively heavy the vehicle more powerful D6s. After crossing the was driven over the top of Marble Point Strand Moraines the United States party Peninsula, saving several kilometres of eventually delivered the scientific equip return journey.
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