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A News Bulletin New Zealand Antarctic Society I A NEWS BULLETIN published quarterly by the NEW ZEALAND ANTARCTIC SOCIETY -... THE "ENDEAVOUR" IN ANTARCTIC WATERS VOL. I. NO.4. DECEMBER, 1956 r....~--- ZEAlAUC • ,A 'w,", +Cc "..,11 l I • ...l · , _.- ---. .-- " -, B• ,, • ,, , I, • o , ••• \, ". -- .-- .- AND ( w.< s 1,0 • ANTA~CnCA Infernattonal Geophys:col Year- - Proposed Bases , • United lCin;dom ... New Zeola/1d • U",t.d Stot$. • Austral,,, ,.. U.s.S.R. 0 O~ (j) CommgnwlOJlI. Tronsonlvrdic; &p.d'''Qtl (Successor to Antarctic News Bulletin) VOL. I. No.4. DECEMBER 1956 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, New Zealand. New Zealand Expedition Prepares To Leave The New Zealand component of the Trans-Antarctic Expedi­ tion, under Sir Edmund Hillary, together with the New Zealand I.G.Y. team under Dr. Trevor Hatherton, is due to sail from Wel­ lington on December 15 in H.M.N.Z.S. "Endeavour." Both parties will occupy Scott Chief Petty Officer Eric Voison Base. which it is anticipated will be (28), who comes from the Channel erected near Butter Point in Islands and is now also on the McMurdo Sound. "Philomel", shipwright artificer. The SUMllmR PARTY has been Electrician's ~Jate (1st Class) K. completed by the selection of the J. Boyd (23), R.N.Z.N.V.R., Welling· following: ton, electrician. Dr. J. F. Findlay (38), Pahiatua, Medical Officer. Lanoe-Corporal Noel Sinclair (23), Auckland, stationed at Papakura. l\lr. J. Hoffman, a technician in carpenter·joiner. Geophysics Division of the D.S.I.R., explosives and drilling expert. Lance-tCorporal Ernie Beceonsell Construction Group (23), Blenheim, stationed at Christ· ~Ir. Randal Heke (28), Ministry church, electrician. of Works, Christchurch, foreman of Lanoe-Corporal Albert Edwards the bullding works. Mr. Heke has (35), Waverley, stationed at Linton. had wide experience in supervising carpenter-joiner. building projects on Niue Island ~AAAAA•••••••••••••' and the Chatham Islands as well as ~ COVER PICTURE • in New Zealand. <4 R.R.8. "John Biscoe" (now .. ~Ir. Ronald R. ~lItchell (32), ~ H.M.N.Z.S. ''Endeavour'') leav· ~ Ministry of Works. Wellington, ~ lng R.I.D.S. Base H. Signy • He architectural assistant. has been • Island, SOllth Orlrneys, C01"O- .. associated with the planning of • nation Island in t.he back- ~ Scott Base since its inception. ~ gronnd. (F.I.D.S. Copyright. ~ Chief Petty Officer Zane Price ~ By Courtesy of Falkland ~ (27), Hawera, of H.M.N.Z.S. • Islands Dependencies Scienti· ~ • "Philomel". Auckland, shipwright ~ fie Bureau.) .. artificer. ~T~ •••••••••••••••T' 78 ANTARCTIC Docembor. 1956 Endeavour Arrives The "Glacier" is scheduled to sail The expedition's ship "Endea­ from Lyttelton on December 10 vour" arrived at Wellington on with 16 men of the expedition, October 25, and berthed at Point Messrs. J. E. Gawn and E. S. Buck· Howard where unloading stores nell of the Base Party, Messrs. and equipment to the expedition's R. H. Orr, H. N. Sandford, W. J. P. store at Gracefield immediately McDonald, V. B. Gerard and L. H. began. Services personnel as well Martin of the I.G.Y. group, and as expedition members and mem­ several of the summer support bers of the Ross Sea Committee party. office staff were hard at work for The "Endeavour" will leave WeI· several days. lington on December 15 for her Uniortunately, much damage to port of departure, Bluff via Lytte!· equipment and some of the stores ton and Dunedin with all except was caused by water which entered three of the main wintering party the hold after a "temporary and on board, also the remainder of the • unpredictable" fault in the pumping summer support party. Captain H. system during heavy weather. Ruegg will also sail on the Some of the stores had to be "Endeavour". replaced by air freight from Eng· U.S.S. "Curtiss", expected to land. arrive in New Zealand about mid­ Some of the expedition dogs are January, will not carry any of the being brought to Wellington from New Zealand Expedition's per­ Mt. Cook and Auckland to be sonnel to the Antarctic, but will shipped in the "John R. Towle." take meat for the expedition. M. The rest will board the "Endea­ Paul Emile Victor, the noted vour" at Dunedin. French polar explorer, Group­ Sir Edmund Hillary has been Captain R. Dalton and Mr. L. B. appointed a Stipendiary Magistrate Quartermain will travel with and postmaster, Captain Kirkwood American expedition members on an S.M. and J.P., and Dr. Hatherton the "Curtiss" as observers for has been granted the authority of France, Australia and the New J.P. and coroner. Previously the Zealand Antarctic Society respec· only officer of the Dependency was tively. the Administrator, Captain H. Ruegg, to whom Captain Kirkwood will be deputy. The Duke of Edinburgh will visit I.G.Y. WORK the ''Endeavour'' at Lyttleton. Mr. John Hanessian, executive Transport Plans officer of the United States I.G.Y. Committee, who is responsible for Five ships will take New Zealand the organisation of the American • personnel and stores to the Ant· scientific programme jn the Ant· arctic. In addition to the expedi- arctic, was in Wellington for a few tion's own ship, H.MN.Z.S. days in October, and was of very uEndeavour", .four United States great assistance to the New Zea­ • ships will co·operate. land I.G.Y. Committee. He facill­ Scheduled to sail from Wellington tated, for example, the acquisition on December 10 is the "John R. of auroral equipment to be installed Towle", taking a large part of the at Invercargill, equipment which expedition's cargo and three of the will be of great value to New Zea. party, Messrs. G. Warren, M. H. land scientists dUring the I.G.Y. Douglas and A. J. Heine. period. Doccmber. 1956 ANTARCTIC 79 WEATHER CENTRAL the Antarctic in 1902·04. He was a close friend of "Teddy" Evans, then , The New Zealand Meteorological second officer of the "Morning"; Service has selected IUr. E. G. Edie they had been cadets together on as the New Zealand representative the training ship "Worcester." to be stationed this summer at Gerald Doorly carne out to New Weather Central, Little America V. Zealand in 1905 and joined the Mr. Edie, who is 41, has been a Union Steam Ship Company. 21 of member of the Meteorological whose ships he was subsequently to Service staff for 16 years: he is first command. In 1925 he joined the assistant in the general forecasting Port Phillip (Melbourne) pilot ser· office at Kelburn. vice, from which he retired in 1945. He returned to New Zealand, where he had two married daughters, but his health faJ1ed and Adare Station he died in Wellington on November The three New Zealand scientists, 3. C. E. Ingham, J. G. Humphries and Captain Doorly was the author of M. W. Langevad, who with nine II The Voyages of the 'Morning' ", Americans will man the new llIn the Wake" (an autobiography), station to be established this and several other books. summer at Cape Hallett, some 70 Several members of the Council miles south of Cape Adare, are due of the New Zealand Antarctfc to leave New Zealand on U.S.S. Society attended the funeral service "Arneb" on or about December 10. in St. Paul's pro·cathedral, the Mr. Humphries visited the United President and Secretary were States during September and among the pall·bearers, and the October to gain experience in the Society sent a .floral tribute. installation and operation of the American panoramic ionosonde Howard Ninnls died in Dun­ eqUipment which is to be used at edin on August 1. An Englishman the station. by birth, after seven years on In charge of the post will be Dr. Admiralty service, he joined Scott's James A. Shear, Ph.D. in Geo­ "Terra Nova" expedition in 1910. graphy of Clark University. Dr. but an injury necessitated his reo Shear served in the U.S. Army Air turn to England from Capetown. He Corps from 1941 to 1946, leaving the engaged in motor and aero under-­ Service with the rank of Captain. takings until selected as a member He is at present Professor of of Shackleton's Imperial Trans· Geography at the University of Antarctic Expedition in 1914. As Kentucky. He is 37 years of age. a member of the Ross Sea party he Mr. J. Glenn Dyer of the U.S. was on the "Aurora" throughout '''eather Bureau will supervise the the 45 weeks' drift. Arriving in New location and erection of Adare Zealand, he continued to work for Station. the Expedition and served as pay· master. and secretary to Captain J. K. Davis. He later accompanied THE VETERANS Shackleton as secretary organiser Two men associated with on a lecture tour of New Zealand. the "heroic age" of Antarctic ex­ Australia, the United States and the ploration died recently in New United Kingdom. Rejoining the Zealand. Royal Navy in 1917 he was commls' Captain G. S. Doorlv was third sioned, but in 1925 returned to New officer on Captain Scott's relief ship Zealand and resided here until his "Morning" on her two voyages to death this year. 80 ANTARCTIC Docomber, 1956 SHACKLETON BASE PREPARES The eight men of the British Trans-Antarctic team who wintered under primitive conditions at Shackleton Base near Vahsel Bay after the hurried departure of the "Theron" early this year were able to vacate their sno-cat crate on September 20 and move into one end of the hut. As all the coal was lost and para­ One wonders if these birds had ffin has to be conserved it is wintered there or whether perhaps impossible for more than a part of they were survivors from the the hut to be heated.
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