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A News Bulletin New Zealand Antarctic Society A NEWS BULLETIN published quarterly by the NEW ZEALAND ANTARCTIC SOCIETY r f J , HALLETT STATION With Mt. Herschel (c. '11,400 ft.) in the background. The station is built on Sea bee Spit, which projects from the cliffs of Cape Hallett, and is separated from the foot of Mt. Herschel by the six miles wide Hallett Bay. (Photo by A, J. Heine-N,Z. Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition) Vol. I, No. 11 SEPTEMBER, 1958 International Geophysical Year - Proposed 8ases • Unifed Kingdom + New Zealand • Ur1i~ed Stafes • Alls~ro';a ?' U.S.S.R. 0 OH,ers <i> Cornrnonwoalfh TrOMsont-o"crie Expeclihon (Successor to "Antarctic News Bulletin") Vcl. I, Nc. " SEPTEMBER, 1958 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. COLD WINTER. AT SCOTT BASE Scott Base, crowded last winter with the sixteen men of the New Zealand support party for the Trans-Antarctic Expedition as well as Dr. Trevor lIatherton's small team of five scientists, this year houses only an enlarged group of eleven scientists and support personnel, under Mr. L. 1I. (Lin) Martin. Weather during May was cold and change is proving most valuable. clear with only one day of blizzard. Generally the same earthquakes are June was cold and cloudy with much reported, but Scott Base records cirrus cloud. The average tempera­ slightly more than each of the other ture was five degrees lower than in stations. In July arrangements were June 1957. July was very cold with also made for an interchange of clear skies and light wind. The mean seismic data with Byrd Station. 29 daily minimum temperature in July earthquakes were recorded in May, was -46° F. and the actual minimum 47 in June and 53 in July. 0 of -62.5 F. was the coldest ever It was not found possible to receive recorded in the Ross Island area. The Australasian broadcast stations at average temperature for the month 0 Scott Base during June, although both (_31 F.) was equal to the mean daily Hallett and Little America reported minimum over the same period last very good reception of these stations. year. SPECTACULAR AURORAS WHISTLERS Strong aurora displays occurred on A strong and surprising correlation June 17. 19 and 22, but other June was discovered between whistlers and displays were weak and transitory. In seismic activity but this is probably July the exceptionally clear weather coincidental, as on two days of permitted continuous observations moderate whistler activity (June 14 from the 2nd to the 26th. Intense and and 21) no seismic activity was re­ spectacular displays occurring on the corded, and Martin comments "Ant­ 7th and 8th lasted for 23 hours. That arctic whistlers are more probably on the 8th was the most spectacular echoes of the mating cries of Emperor ever seen at Scott Base. The heavens Penguins than connected with earth­ were filled with brilliant green and quakes in any way'" Whistlers are whit.e draperies, mysteriously moving also being received at Byrd Station as if waved by a giant hand. and the results are comparable, Siesmic data has been exchanged though ByI'd receives weak dawn since June with Hallett Station, Mirny, chorus which has not been heard at D'Urville and Halley Bay. This inter- Scott Base. 282 ANTARCTIC September, 1958 A clock stoppage in the tide gauge mess-room New Zealanders and their during a cold snap early in May neces­ guests from the nearby United States sitated the re-installation of the base sang and danced to the music o rig i n a I less-elaborate clock. A of the Scott Base skiffle group, con­ hurricane-lamp fitted with a large fuel sisting of a harmonica attached to a tank is now used inside the box to guitar, three washboards, a flute, an raise the temperature and results have accordion, and a form of bass fiddle been most satisfactory. No records manufactured from a tea-chest. were lost in June and only one, not Greetings were received from all due to clock failure, in July. A pres­ over the world, including a much­ sure ridge developed under the box, appreciated message from Sir Vivian causing it to shift slightly. Fuchs. The prevailing low temperatures in July increased greatly the difficulties A highlight of the day was a superb of maintaining the Base, particularly dinner prepared by the cook, Maurice the heating and mechanical equipment. Speary. The menu was puree of pea The diesel fuel supplied for this year soup, roast lamb and mint sauce, solidified at _360 F., whereas the fuel roast turkey, baked and boiled pota­ supplied for the 1957 winter was still toes, green peas, cauliflower and usable at -460 F. The locating of white sauce, steamed ginger pudding, some 30 drums of the original fuel fruit salad, jelly and cream, ice cream, buried under drift alleviated the situa­ coffee and liquers. tion. Martin reports that the morale and general spirits of the men have been GEOLOGISTS WORKING very good and that all continue to do excellent work. Back in New Zealand geologists Lin Martin had an unexpected phone Gunn and Warren are now hard at call during July. A Tasmanian house­ work on their geological report. They wife, Mrs. M. G. Eastick, made use of are working in a room in the new the recently established Australian Museum building in Christchurch, and post office service to Scott Base to hundreds of their specimens are set make the call. After seven attempts out, classified according to location over a period of nearly a week Mrs. and type. There is still a great deal Eastick got through to the greatly of work to be done before the report surprised base leader who exclaimed can be completed and published as a "How marvellous to hear a woman's geological bulletin. voice!" The specimens that they brought RUN FOR DOGS back with them from their field trips together with those collected by Men and dogs had an outing from Carlyon and Ayres working in the Scott Base on the last day of August. Darwin Glacier area, and by Miller In sunny weather two dog teams were and Marsh in the Mt. Markham area, taken for a 16-mile run across the sea total about 500 lbs. They have now ice. about 1,000 petrological specimens The first team was taken by Robb and 400 fossil specimens. From their and Thompson, the second by Hender­ discoveries, several hundred slides for son and Gibson. The dogs performed microscopic examination are .being well after their long winter rest. With prepared in Wellington. some slight changes in the relative positions of the dogs in the traces the men are confident of two excellent teams. A V.S. Neptune arrived at Whenua­ pai carrying as well as its crew a MIDWINTER DAY wax dressmaker's model in a red Midwinter's eve saw a lively party bathing suit to "cheer up the boys at the base. In the gaily-decorated down south". September, 1958 ANTARCTIC 283 D.S.· AND N.Z. CO-OPERATION AT HALLETT STATION Three New Zealand scientists, including one biologist, will replace the present party led by Mr. K. J. Salmon at Hallett station, which is manned jointly by New Zealand and the United States. Hallett Station, latitude 72 0 18' S., The station programme includes longitude 170 0 18' E., is situated to the observation and investigation in the south of Moubray Bay, some 70 miles fields of ionospherics, geomagnetism, south of Cape Adare, on the nearest seismology and auroral physics. The portion of the Antarctic Continent to biologist will undertake studies of New Zealand. The station rests on a animal, bird and plant life during the sea-level spit sheltered by the tower­ summer months and will participate ing cliffs of five thousand foot Cape in the normal station programme Hallett. The surface spit is actually during the winter. a series of undulating ridges of period hillocks six to twelve feet high which REPORTS FROM HALLETT are composed of moraine and penguin New Zealanders j 0 i n e d wit h guano. The area is covered in spring Americans on July 4 to celebrate and summer by hundreds of thousands Independence Day in "the Banana of Adelie penguins. Belt of the Antarctic". The names of The station lies directly on the flight seven men whose birthdays occurred wthin a few weeks of the Fourth of path from Christchurch, New Zealand, July had pride of place on top of a to the U.S. Naval Air Facility in giant 100 lb. cake, 14 inches high, 18 McMurdo Sound. An emergency inches wide and two feet long, iced landing strip and refueling facilities with red, white and blue trimmings. are available at Hallett. The menu included roast turkey and The cargo ship V.S.S. "Arneb" is cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie and­ scheduled to arrive at Hallett with an ice cream. icebreaker escort on January 7 to Evening entertainments included a exchange personnel and off-load sup­ movie show and home-made fireworks, plies. The present IG-man wintering­ which consisted of hydrogen-filled over party will travel on "Arneb" to balloons carrying oil-soaked rags and McMurdo and thence to New Zealand, a fuse. After several attempts these from where the American component were successful and made a great will be flown to the United States. show over the snow-covered land­ Again, three New Zealand scientists scape. or technicians will spend the year at A crate of Rhode Island loam left Hallett Station.
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