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AURORA AUSTRALIS on CAMERA - Capturing the Beauty of the Southern Lights SPECIAL FEATURE: NEW WALL MAP OF ANTARCTICA ENCLOSED THE PUBLICATION OF THE NEW ZEALAND ANTARCTIC SOCIETY Vol 37, Nos. 3 & 4, 2019 Vol RRP $15.95 AURORA AUSTRALIS ON CAMERA - capturing the beauty of the southern lights Drilling through the Ross Ice Shelf Micro-organisms in the volcanic vents of Erebus What’s causing sea level rise? The mapping of Antarctica Join the 04 NEW ZEALAND ANTARCTIC SOCIETY today! 9 770003 532006 antarcticsociety.org.nz Vol 38, Nos. 3 & 4, 2019 In Brief antarcticsociety.org.nz Antarctic Treaty turns 60! On 1 December 1959, the Antarctic Treaty was signed in Washington is published by the New Zealand Antarctic Society Inc. DC by twelve countries, including ISSN 0003-5327 New Zealand, ensuring that Antarctica “shall continue forever to be used exclusively EDITOR: Nicholas O’Flaherty Publisher, The Antarctic Report for peaceful purposes”. 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ANTARCTICA Ross Island Citations Ever since humans have been going to Antarctica, they have needed shelter from Since the time of Scott and Shackleton, Ross Island has been a popular starting Basemap: Land Information New Zealand. Ross Sea Region Antarctic Base Map. https:// Rocks: Burton-Johnson, A., Black, M., Fretwell, P. T., and Kaluza-Gilbert, J.: An automated the elements, and bases from which to explore and conduct research. The first point for expeditions into the interior of Antarctica. Today it is the location of New tiles.maps.linz.io/antarctic_basemap/WMTSCapabilities.xml methodology for differentiating rock from snow, clouds and sea in Antarctica from Modern Traverse: Indicative routes taken each summer by were cramped by today’s standards and provided only rudimentary protection Cape Bird Zealand’s Scott Base and the United States McMurdo Station. Landsat 8 imagery: a new rock outcrop map and area estimation for the entire Antarctic supply convoys of tracked vehicles, to scientific research COMNAP: Data provided by individual COMNAP member National Antarctic Programs. from the cold. continent, The Cryosphere, 10, 1665-1677, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1665-2016, 2016. stations on the polar plateau. ROSS SEA https://www.comnap.aq/SitePages/Home.aspx The very first base used for wintering over on the continent consisted of Labels: RAMP2: Liu, H., K. C. Jezek, B. Li, and Z. Zhao. 2015. Radarsat Antarctic Mapping Project prefabricated huts of Norwegian spruce, installed at Cape Adare. Ten men from Mt. Bird Cape - SCAR Secretariat (1992, updated 2014 and 2017). Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica, Historical Route: The first three overland expeditions to 1800 Tennyson Digital Elevation Model, Version 2. [Indicate subset used]. Boulder, Colorado USA. NASA Borchgrevink’s British Antarctic (Southern Cross) Expedition spent the winter Wood Point Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research. reach the South Pole, 1911-1958. National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. doi: http://dx.doi. Information New Zealand, has there in 1899. LEWIS - Land Information New Zealand (LINZ): David Harrowfield, Antarctic Visitor Center, BAY org/10.5067/8JKNEW6BFRVD. [01-05-2019] International Antarctic Center, Christchurch, New Zealand Antarctic Programme and the Science station In 1903 the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition constructed Omond House, WOHLSCHLAG International Centre for Antarctic Information and Research. BAY Cape REMA 8m: Howat, I. M., Porter, C., Smith, B. E., Noh, M.-J., and Morin, P.: The Reference a stone building, on Laurie Island in the South Orkneys. In 1904 it became part Crozier of Orcadas Base, still operated by the Argentine government today, the longest Elevation Model of Antarctica, The Cryosphere, 13, 665-674, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc- Acknowledgemets for REMA DEM MT.
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