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A News Bulletin New Zealand Antarctic Society A N E W S B U L L E T I N p u b l i s h e d q u a r t e r l y b y t h e NEW ZEALAND ANTARCTIC SOCIETY HUSKIES AT SCOTT BASE Two Greenland dogs, Apolotok (left) and the bitch Kari. Photo: Guy Mannering. Antarctic Division. Vol. 3, No. 6 JUNE, 1963 VS<v< E. ISO" W. AUSTRALIA Winter and Summer bases Scott Summer base only +Sky-Hi Jointly operated base Hallett NEW ZEALAND (us -A/.ZJ Transferred base Wilkes U.S. lo Aust TASMANIA Temporarily tion -operational....*Syowa. *°8ARr , Campbell I. (N.Z) A ( Macauaric I. \ft (Aust) i^^f(u.S.-N.Z) WU v\'Murdo(i/_^ s Scott Base-' /Hitllo Rotkfoi 5-\<U.S,) "Byrd (U.S, +"Vosrok , .(O.S.5.RJ _ 2\£.Amundsen -Scolt (U.5J iA N Tl A R &B» "<* Miwit5rT\ „»j.e^xy "<S Maud. a., ate*... .< .•Marion I. a« DRAWN BY DEPARTMENT OF LANDS £ SURVEY WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND, SEP. 1962. (Successor to "Antarctic News Bulletin") Vol. 3, No. 6 JUNE, 1963 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. SAD ENDING (See "Antarctic," March, p. 197.) INDEX We regret to learn that the sick We are glad to announce Danish seaman Elmer Mortensen, that the compilation of the serving on the "Thala Dan" on char index to volume 2 of "Antarc ter to A.N.A.R.E., who was dram tic," which was unavoidably atically hurried from the Davis Sea delayed, is now completed and in February and March by ice the manuscript is in the breaker and Hercules aircraft to printer's hands. Details re Christchurch Hospital, died in the price and binding arrange hospital on April 6. ments will be given in our It is revealed that the emergency next issue. We apologise to flight which was the last leg of those who have been incon the dramatic evacuation from the venienced by our premature Davis Sea to Christchurch was a announcement. hazardous operation. The flight commenced at 4 a.m. on March 4 from McMurdo, but after an hour in the air the pilot, IN PROSPECT Cdr. W. Everett, had to turn back because of trouble with one of the mmmsmSmi tilers. Mechanics were Statu cessful publication "The Antarctic u.g by to effect immediate repairs and the aircraft was air-borne again Today," which has been translated into Russian and Spanish and has within the hour. The flight now proceeded uneventfully until just long been out of print, is nearing off the coast of New Zealand, when completion under the editorship of Dr. Trevor Hatherton. a warning light in No. 4 engine The new product'on will in all alerted thc crew to secure that en gine and feather its propeller. The probability be published by a lead aircraft came in on three engines ing English publisher. and made a smooth landing, to com plete thc evacuation. COMING SIX WOMEN Another special Antarctic issue of When the Russian 10,135 ton the Journal of Geology and Geo tanker "Batumi" called at Sydney physics will appear, probably before on March 27 for water and pro the end of July. This will contain visions, on its way to refuel the about a dozen papers, mostly on Soviet Antarctic fleet, Sydneysiders Geological and Geophysical subjects, were interested to know that the and also the Bibliography of Publi- crew of 46 includes six women. One ctions resulting from New Zealand is the ship's baker, the others are Antarctic expeditions. stewardesses. June, 1963. NEW ZEALAND PLANS COMPLETION OF DEPENDENCY EXPLORATION New Zealand's summer work in Antarctica ended on March 11, when 18 summer support and Army building party men boarded the U.S.S. "Glacier" to return to New Zealand. They left a winter party of 14—12 New Zealanders, an Englishman, and an Austra lian—to six months of isolation. In five months the New Zealand lation has been given by the United Antarctic Research Expedition had States to make Scott Base one of achieved one of its biggest pro the stations in a world network of grammes. 120 stations equipped with identical Extensions to base buildings instruments. worth £30,000 were almost com The old E hut has been converted pleted, much new scientific equip into an administration centre. A ment installed in the laboratory, new heated vehicle garage and some and about 50,000 square miles of provision for bulk fuel storage have the Ross Dependency topographical been provided. The present garage ly and geologically surveyed. has been converted into a cold Biologists studied seals and pen store, and the ready-use store has guins. Soil scientists sampled Mc been completely insulated for use Murdo Sound's rocky coasts, glaci as a cool-store "for perishable food ologists and surveyors began a stuffs. New housing has been pro major study of ice movement in the vided for tele-seismic equipment Ross Ice shelf, field men tested new being supplied by the U.S. Coast motor toboggans and seismologists and Geodetic Survey. investigated curious ice quakes caused by icebergs. ALARM ! Reconnaissance photography On the night of April 15 the stall" covered thousands of square miles at the basc were watching a movie of territory in the dependency yet which was suddenly drowned by to be surveyed and provided data the hooter and bells of the auto on McMurdo Sound seal population matic fire alarm system, which indi and ice movement. cated that the fire was in the new Other studies covered local sarage part of the recent £30,000 geology, the earth's magnetism, the building programme. behaviour of the upper atmosphere Fire-fighters had dillicultv in gain and preparation for recording ing access to the seat of the fire auroral phenomena during the win owing to thc volume of smoke, but ter night. the use of breathing apparatus by More than 100 New Zealanders some of the party greatly facilitated visited or remained at the base. the use of fire extinguishers and eventually the flames were brought BASE ADDITIONS under control. Messing and livine-room accom The building houses most of the modation at Scott Base has been base vehicles, including three expanded by the removal of the weasels, a bulldozer, Landrover, leader's office and thc radio-room tractor and a new Nodwell person to another building, and extra nel carrier, all of which were saved. badly-needed sleeping accommoda The cause of the fire is believed tion has been provided. The scien to have been the over-heating of a tific laboratory has been nearly stove. Damage is mainly super doubled in size to accommodate ficial. new seismic equipment, a small biology laboratory and thc photo The Right Hon. W. Nash has ac laboratory. The new seismic instal cepted an invitation from Rear Ad- June. 1963. miral J. H. Reedy, commander of the United States naval support SCOTT BASE LEADER force for Operation Deep Freeze, to visit Antarctica as soon as this can 1964 be conveniently arranged in the The Leader at Scott Base next coming season. year will be Mr Russell E. Rawle "It is one thing I really want to (52) of Wellington. do," said Mr. Nash recently. "I am Born in Wellington, Mr Rawle very keen indeed." was educated at Auckland Grammar School, Wellington College and Vic VETERAN SNOCAT toria University College. After leav Sno-cat "Able", one of thc famous ing school he joined the then Pub vehicles in which the Trans-Antarc lic Works Department and was, un tic Expedition crossed the Antarctic til recently seconded to Antarctic Continent in 1957-58, has been Division D.S.I.R., a career adminis brought to New Zealand on U.S.S. tration officer in the Ministry of "Arneb" to have a new chassis fit Works. ted. Used at Scott Base for the Mr Rawle's hankering for remote last five years as a cargo and per sonnel carrier, "Able" has still many places was fostered by the usual boyhood trips into the Orongorongo years of service ahead, but its and Tararua Ranges near Welling future has not definitely been de ton. An abiding love of mountains cided. has been the underlying motive for his wider travels in mountainous CAPE ROYDS regions overseas. The only considerable portion of During World War II he left New the building programme scheduled Zealand in 1940 with thc Second for last summer which has not been Echelon of 2 N.Z.E.F., served in the completed is not at Scott Base it Middle East theatre, won the M.C. self but at Cape Rovds, the site in Crete and returned to New Zea of Shackleton's 1907-09 expedition. land in 1945 with the rank of maior, Here it was intended to erect a being posted to the Territorial 'Re small pre-fabricatcd biological serve. laboratory and living hut for thc In 1954-56, and again in 1959-61, use of zoologists studying the near he served as one of three New Zea by penguin colony. land Military Observers appointed The building materials could not as New Zealand representatives with be landed at the cape from "En the United Nations Observer Group deavour" in January because of in Kashmir. The duties associated heavy ice conditions. They were with this appointment enabled him put ashore at McMurdo, but later to fulfil a cherished ambit:on to developments made it impracticable travel and climb in the North-West to ship them north again to Cape Himalaya and Karakoram Ranges in Royds.
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