THE POLAR RECORD Editor: L. M. Forbes. Editorial Committee: B. B. Roberts, G. de Q. Robin, Sir J. M. Wordie
Vol. 9 January 1959 No. 61
CONTENTS The Scott Polar Research Institute page 297
ARTICLES : The Canadian Northern Insect Survey, 1947-57. By T. N. Freeman 299 Recent economic developments in northern Quebec and Labrador. By J. Brian Bird . 308 Iron ore in Arctic Europe. By P. A. B. Gethin .... 314 Geodetic survey of northern Canada by shoran trilateration. By Angus C. Hamilton 320 The manuscript collection of the Scott Polar Research Institute. By Ann Savours ...... 331
FIELD WORK: British expedition to Vestspitsbergen, 1956 . • . . . . 336 French expedition to central Greenland, 1956-57 .... 336 British expedition to north-west Greenland, 1957 .... 336 Soviet Arctic expeditions, 1957 337 The Northern Sea Route in 1957 337 Swedish-Finnish-Swiss International Geophysical Year Expedition to Nordaustlandet, 1957-58; and Swedish Expedition to Nordaust- landet, 1958-59: Season 1957-58...... 338 Swedish Glaciological Expedition to Nordaustlandet, 1958 . . 339 Under-ice crossing of the Arctic basin: U.S.S. Nautilus and U.S.S. Skate, 1958 340 . Arctic Institute Greenland Expedition, 1958 341 British naval hydrographic surveys in the Falkland Islands Depen- dencies, 1956-57 and 1957-58 '. 341 The Australian automatic weather station on Lewis Islet, Wilkes Land 342 Anglo-American physiological team in Ross Dependency, 1957-58 . 343
NOTES : Extension of International Geophysical Year activities into 1959 . 345 Norwegian-Soviet sealing agreement, 1958 ..... 845 Tenth meeting of the International Whaling Commission, 1958 . 349 New Soviet ice-strengthened ships 350 New geographical institute in Siberia 350
ig Pit 296 CONTENTS NOTES (cont.) Soviet organizations concerned with the Antarctic . . . page 350 ficole des Hautes £tudes: Centre Francais d'Etudes Arctiques . 851 Alaska becomes 49th state of United States . . . . . 351 The North American "Distant Early Warning Line" . . .352 Proposed international Antarctic conference 353 IGY Antarctic Weather Central at "Little America V" . . .355 The names "East Antarctica" and "West Antarctica" .. . .358 S.C.A.R. Bulletin 860
CORRESPONDENCE 873
OBITUARY ...... 376
RECENT POLAR LITERATURE 878
ERRATA 407 Thirty-first Annual Report of the work of the Scott Polar Research Institute 408 NTERNATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL INTERNATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL YEAR STATIONS IN ANTARCTICA YEAR STATIONS ALREADY 26 •TRISTAN DA CUWHA AND THE SUB-ANTARCTIC ISLANDS ESTABLISHED (•) AND PR0PO5eD(+), IN THE ANTARCTIC (Key to map opposite) 500 1000 1 ... 1 1 NAUTICAL MILES NTERMATIONAL BOUNDARIES ARGENTINA UNITED KINGDOM 1 "Orcadas", Laurie Island, W) -to' S., 44° 43' W. 27 Stanley, 51° 42' S., 57= 52' VV. 2 "Teniente CamunT, Hall' Moon Island, 62° 36'S., 28 Grytviken, South Georgia, 54' 17' S., 36° 30' VV. 50'- 57' VV. 29 Signy Island (Base H), South Orkney Islands, 60° 43'S., 3 "Deeepcion" or "Primero de Mayo", Decqition Island, 45° 36' VV. 62° 59' S., GO" 42' \V. 30 Admiralty Bay (Base G), King George Island, 62° 05' S., 4 "Espcranza", Hope Bay, 63° 24' S., 56C 59' W. 58' 25' VV. 31 Deception Island (Base B), South Shetland Islands, 5 "Melchior", Gamma Island, 64" 20' S., 62° 50' W. 62° 59' S., 60° 34' VV. 6 "Almirante Brown", Paradise Harbour, 04° 5a'S., 32 Hope Bay (Base D), Trinity Peninsula, 63°24'S., 62° 52' \V. 2G° 50' VV. 3 7 "General San Martin", Barry Island, 68 08'S., 33 View Point, Duse Bay, 63° 32' S., 57° 24' VV. 67° 07' W. o 3-1 Port Lockroy (Base A), Palmer Archipelago, 64 50'S., 3 "General Belgruno", FUoliner Ice Shelf, 77'59'S., 63° 31' VV. 38° 44' \V. 35 Argentine Islands (Base F), off Graham Coast, 65° 15' S., 64° 16' YV. AUSTRALIA 36 Detaille Island, Loubet Coast (Base W), 66° 52' S., 9 Macquarie Island, 54' 30'S., 158° 57'E. 66° 48' VV. 10 Mawson, Mac-Robertson Land, 67° 36' S., 62° 53' E. 37 Horseshoe Island (Base Y), Marguerite Bay, 67° 49' S-, 11 Davis, Princess Elizabeth Land, 6S° 35' S., 77° 50' E. 67° 17' VV. 33 Halley Bay (Royal Society base), Caird Coast, 75° 31' S., BELGIUM 26° 36' VV. 12 "Roi Baudouin", Breidvika, Prinsesse Ragnhild Kyst, 30 "Shackleton" (Trans-Antarctic Expedition base), 70° 26' S., 23° 19' E. Filchner Ice Shelf, 77° 57' S., 37° 16' VV. Evacuated November 1957. CHILE 40 "South Ice" (Trans-Antarctic Expedition advance base), 13 "Arturo Prat", Greenwich Island, 62° 20' S., 59° 3S' W. 81° 56' S., 29° 30' VV. Evacuated December 1957. 41 Prospect Point (Base J), Graham Coast, 66° S., 14 "Pedro Aguirre Cerda", Deception Island, 62°56'S., 65° 24' VV. 60' 36' VV. 15 " General Bernardo O'HJggins ", Cape Legoupil, 63° 10' S., UNITED STATES 57° 54' VV. 42 "Little America V", Kainan Bay, 7S° 16' S., 162° 28' VV. 16 "Presidente Gabriel Gonzalez Videla", Paradise Harbour, 43 "Byrd station", Marie Byrd Land, 80" S., 120° VV., 64° 49' S., 62° 52' W. approx. 44 "Amundsen-Scott station", South Geographical Pole. FRANCE 45 "Ells-worth station", Filchner Ice Shelf, 77°43'S., 17 Port-aux-Francais, lies de Kerguelen, 40° 20' S., 70° 14' E. 41° 07' VV. 18 "Dumont d'Urville", Pointe Geologie, Terre Adelie, 46 "Wilkes station", Vincennes Bay, 66° 15' S., 110° 35'E. 66° 40'S., 140° 01'E. 47 "Williams Air Operations Facility", Ross Island, 19 "Charcot", South Magnetic Pole area, Terre Adelie, 77° 51' S., 166° 37' E. (Operational support base) 69° 30' S., 140° E., approx. UNITED STATESINEW ZEALAND JAPAN 48 "Hallett station", Cape Hallett, 72° 25' S., 170° 55' E. 20 "Syowa", OngiU, 69° 29' S., 39° 35' E. Evacuated February 1958. U.S3.R. 49 "Mirnyy", Queen Mary Land, 66° 37' S., 93° E. NEW ZEALAND 50 "Vostok", South Geomagnetic Pole area, Wilkes Land, 21 Campbell Island, 32° 33' S., 169° 09' E. 78° 27' S., 106' 52° E. 22 "Scott", Ross Island, 77° 50' S., 166° 44' E. 51 "Sovetskaya", area of so-called "Pole of Relative Inaccessibility", Enderby Land, 78° 24' S., 87° 35'E. NORWAY Temporary location. Establishment at approx. 82° S., 55° E. planned for 1958-59, 51a. 23 "Norwaystation ",Kronprinsesse Martha Kyst,70° 30' S., 2° 32' W. 52 "Pionerskaya", Queen Mary Land, 69° 44' S., 95° 30' E. (Operational support base) SOUTH AFRICA 53 "Komsomol'skaya", Princess Elizabeth Land, 74° S., 99° E., approx. (Operational support base) 24 Marion Island, Prince Ed-ward Islands, 46° 53' S., 37° 52' W. 54 "Oazis", Queen Mary Land, 66° 30' S., 101° E., approx. '^AUSTRALIA 25 Gough Island, 40° 19' S., 9° 54' W. 55 "Vostok-I", Queen Mary Land, 72° S., 97° E., approx. 150 26 Tristan da Cunha, 37° 03'S., 12° 18' VV. Evacuated November 1057.