HNiTflRCiTilC A NEWS BULLETIN published quarterly by the NEW ZEALAND ANTARCTIC SOCIETY (INC) ,m — i * Halley, the British Antarctic Survey's station on the Brunt Ice Shelf, Coats Land,, was rebuilt last season for the third time since 1956-57. This picture taken in March shows one of the four wooden tubes, each of which houses a two-storey building, under construction in a pre-shaped and compacted snow hollow. BAS Copyngh! Registered at Post Office Headquarters, Vol. 10, No. 2 Wellington, New Zealand, as a magazine. SOUTH GEORGIA -.. 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CONTENTS ARTICLES ROSS ISLAND RELICS 46-47 DOME FOR HUT 48-49 POLAR ACTIVITIES NEW ZEALAND 47,47,77 77 UNITED STATES 5151 SjHp CHINA 52-5352-53 | AUSTRALIA 53-58 SOVIET UNION 58,58, 71-73 UNITED KINGDOM 59-6159-61 —r 'n CHILE 62-6462-64 JAPAN 6565 POLAND 6565 ■ SOUTH AFRICA 66-67 ■ I BRAZIL 68-70 P- SPAIN 7070 'A*^*^^r™ SUB-ANTARCTIC % mI- HEARD ISLAND 75-77 ■ ■ GENERAL I ANTARCTIC SOCIETY 50-5150-51 POLE JOURNEYS 72,72, 74 CONSERVATION TROPHY 78-79 OBITUARIES 79-8079-80 ISSN ISSN0003-5327 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 Ross Island huts' relics for museum 'IKSSEiiSf Twenty relics recovered 26 years ago from the three historic huts built by Scott and Shackleton on Ross Island have now come to the Canterbury Museum's Antarctic Centre. The relics were removed from the huts early in 1957 by Paul-Emile Victor, the noted French Arctic and Antarctic scientist and explorer. Paul-Emile Victor was then head of Expeditions Polaires Francaises, responsible for French scientific programmes in Greenland and Adelie Land. He saw the historic huts when he visited McMurdo Station as the guest of Opera tion Deep Freeze. More than nine months ago Paul- was recognised that when Paul-Emile Emile Victor's "souvenirs" as they were Victor visited Scott's huts at Hut Point described in the auctioneers' catalogue, and Cape Evans, and Shackleton's hut were to have been sold in Paris on Oc at Cape Royds they were not recognised tober 5 and 6. They were part of the ex officially as historic sites, and there were plorer's polar library which included no restrictions on the removal of relics. Arctic and Antarctic books, personal After the Antarctic Treaty came into manuscripts, autographs, philatelic force in 1961 New Zealand became items, and 220 photographs from the responsible for the historic huts and Antarctic expeditions of Jean Charcot in other sites in the Ross Dependency. 1901-03 and 1909-10. Since then no relics have been removed Catalogues for the sale were widely officially from the huts without the per circulated, and the listing of items mission of the director of the Antarctic brought back from Mawson's hut in Division, Department of Scientific and Commonwealth Bay, the main base for Industrial Research. his 1911-13 Australasian Antarctic Ex RELICS WITHDRAWN pedition, which Paul-Emile Victor A personal approach was also made to visited in 1956, caused an uproar in the Paul-Emile Victor by Mr J.C wilcnn Australian media. The catalogue listed a who retired early this vear as r tinned plum pudding, 15 pieces of white the Canterbury Musi leather thongs used for dog harness, and to the explorer he suggested that the An five small nails, but newspapers added tarctic Centre would be the most suitable some of the items from the Discovery place to display the relics, and recalled hut and claimed that a shaving mug Paul-Emile Victor's knowledge of the from there had belonged to Mawson. museum gained through his visits to Questions were asked in the Christchurch. Australian Parliament, demands were Finally most of the relics were made by various people for the return of withdrawn from the auction and given the Mawson items, and Paul-Emile Vic by Paul-Emile Victor to the new French tor was alleged to have removed the ar National Museum of Science, ticles illegally from the hut. Finally the Technology and Industry which is ex- Australian Government instructed its pectd to be opened in 1985. But the embassy in Paris to ask the auctioneers museum authorities decided that the An to withdraw the Mawson items from tarctic relics were not entirely suitable sale. for a museum of science and technology. In the meantime the New Zealand ap Eventually the question of where the mproach was pitched on a lower key. It relics should go was referred to the Scott it».-. June 1983 ANTARCTIC Polar Research Institute in Cambridge. In a catalogue note Paul-Emile Victor It was recommended that as the items said some of the coffeee was drunk in had been used by British explorers they 1960. The drinkers were himself, Sir Ed should go to British museums. As New mund Hillary, and Maurice Herzog, the Zealand in now responsible under the noted French alpimist who made the Antarctic Treaty for historic sites and first ascent of Mount Annapurna in the artefacts in the Ross Dependency the Himalaya. items from the Ross Island huts have come to the Canterbury Museum. From the hut at Cape Evans Paul- Eleven of the Scott relics are from the Emile Victor recovered eight relics, hut built at Hut Point for the first ex among them tins of Bird's baking pedition (1901-04). Among them are a powder and concentrated egg powder, blue enamel mug, a tin opener, shaving and pemmican made by J.D. Beauvais, soap in a metal case, a shaving brush, of Copenhagen. Other items included a and anti-blizzard goggles. Smaller items boot sole and two heel plates, an awl us are a dozen horseshoe nails, pony oats ed for sewing dog harness, and a playing from a sack in the hut, and a packet of card — the five of diamonds. safety matches (one used). Only one relic was removed from In the 1956-57 season the summer was Shackleton's hut at Cape Royds which particulary warm, and the ice which was built for his 1908-09 expedition. It almost completely filled the hut melted, was a tin of Liebig's extract of meat, exposing packing cases containing provi marketed under the brand of Lemco, sions. These included two tins of coffee still in its original wrapping, and carried and a tin of tongue. an inscription in pencil — Royds. Packed in square hermetically sealed A nail and two matches were relics of metal- tins, the coffee was specially Rear-Admiral Byrd's first expedition in prepared for the expedition in 1901 by 1928-30. They were found on the ice at Tower Tea Ltd. One tin had been open Little America I where the expedition ed from the bottom but the coffee was wintered, and were given to Paul-Emile still preserved in a separate package. Victor by his friend, Dr Paul Siple. N.Z. research projects for 1984-85 Proposals for research projects to be work, and detailes of required logistic considered for inclusion in the 1984-85 support. New Zealand Antarctic Research Pro gramme are invited by the Ross Applications, which close on August 31, 1983, are reviewed by the biological, Dependency Research Committee. Research proposals can cover any of the physical or earth sciences working groups of the RDRC. Applicants will be ^arth, life or atmospheric sciences and informed of the status of their proposals oe directed to a better understanding of in late December, 1983. the unique environment of Antarctica, its geological and geophysical structure, An information package on research or those natural phenomenon most directions, available facilities and how to suited to research conducted from prepare a proposal is available along southern latitudes.