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AN,™ Rclilg a NEWS BULLETIN Published Quarterly by the NEW ZEALAND ANTARCTIC SOCIETY (INC) AN,™ RClilG A NEWS BULLETIN published quarterly by the NEW ZEALAND ANTARCTIC SOCIETY (INC) ■y! . ' v': V;-^; ■ '■". .**§ ■-- 8&T*J| <*£? -1§; * ■Kf.-jy:■ Wfj>» f&,-.'-> ■■■- ■'; «g?Hi 3L ^§ £gfa nft&ofeiitfi^^M ,*r- Prelude to Antarctica: Men and women who will take part in the 1981-82 New Zealand Antarctic research programme training in the field at Round Hill, near Tekapo, in the South Island. Christchurch "'Star'" photo Registered at Post Office Headquarters, e*»»»*#»»w»l%*N»' -4 00-4 Vol. 9, No. 7 Wellington. New Zealand, as a magazine. 06piemD6r, 1 HO I SOUTH GEORGIA "*.. SOUTH SANDWICH Is- f S O U T H O R K N E Y I s ' \ . / p O r c a d a s a r g * & ! £ & * — - . X5 FALKLAND Is /* Signy I.uk. ^nae^A^^^qvolazarevskaya u s s.r SOUTH AMERICA If/ Borga™ , , ^ S y o w « j a p a n \ 6 0 . E At SfJUTH « .ft I S . A . > SHETLAND^JV, ' w e d d e l l \ # S A I / ^ \ ^ f e ^ V C / Halley Bay! DRONN'NG MAUD UNO ENDERBY M ' /SEA 'uk.'v? COATS Ld / LAND ' ANTARCTIC \V D^V^ner^Belgranr^/ VUavvson \ MAC ROBERTSON LANDv /PENINSULA'^ (see map below) Sobral arg Davis aust USA Amundsen-Scon / queen MARY LAND I ELLSWORTH V7 LAND j. USA./ j i j > 5 U S S R . / °Vostok ussr. / S*V,/ce Shelf \<* WILKES LAND /anda nz. ROSS|nzi§> \MIIIW5li / SEA I^v/VICTORIA /TERRE Leningradskaya USSR „- 'BALLENY Is ANTARCTIC PENINSULA 1 Teniente Matienzo arg 2 Esperanza arg. 3 Almirante Brown arg 4 Petrel arg. 5 Deception arg. 6 Vicecomodoro Marambio arg. <* ANTARCTICA 7 Arturo Prat chile 8 Bernardo O'Higgins chile 9 P r e s i d e n t e F r e i c h i l e y » \ 500 1000 Kilometres 10 Stonington I. uk. 13<^/ 11 Adelaide I. uk. ]2*>2 12 Argentine Is uk. n p> (ABBREVIATIONS 1 3 P a l m e r u s a $ > ARG. ARGENTINA AUST. AUSTRALIA 14 Bellingshausen us.su. ;. \ gfel .; -Ldrsen.'-.■:■ i Ice Shelf WNiTHBWCi (successor to 'Antarctic News Bulletin') Vol.9, No. 7. 103rd Issue. September, 1981 Editor: J. M. CAFFIN, 35 Chepstow Avenue, Christchurch, 5. Address all contributions, inquiries etc. to the Editor. CONTENTS ARTICLES TRANSGLOBE EXPEDITION 239-240 RESEARCH COMMUNITY 248 POLAR ACTIVITIES NEW ZEALAND 210-223 UNITED STATES 224-228 AUSTRALIA 229-234 UNITED KINGDOM 235-237 SOVIET UNION 238 JAPAN 240 POLAND 240 SOUTH AFRICA 243 GENERAL WHALING COMMISSION 241-242 BIOMASS REPORTS 242-243 SHACKLETON FILM 222 OBITUARIES 244-245 ANTARCTIC BOOKSHELF 246-247 ISSN 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 September 1981 NEW ZEALAND PLANS ^H FOR SEASON Two international projects — a major geological study of Northern Victoria Land and observations on Mt Erebus — are included in New Zealand's Antarctic research programme for 1981-82. Five scientific field parties will work in Northern Victoria Land with United States and Australian scientists, and one New Zealand guest scientist and three mountaineers with Antarctic field experience will take part in the second West German expedition to Northern Victoria Land. New Zealanders will return to work on Mt Erebus with a United States party which, for a second season, will include scientists from the Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition. The New Zealand team will have scientists from Victoria University of Wellington and Waikato University, the Geological Survey, a Lands and Survey Department surveyor, and an Antarctic Division field assistant. In addition to the major projects in United States icebreaker, along the coast Northern Victoria Land and on Erebus of Victoria Land, in the dry valleys, at New Zealand will provide support for or Cape Bird, and on the sea ice of McMurdo take part in other projects with the Sound. United States, Japan, and Australia. Of particular significance this season Four Japanese scientists will conduct will be the celebration of the 25th an geochemical research in the Wright, niversary of the opening of Scott Base. Miers, and Victoria Valleys, and at Cape On January 20 New Zealanders in Bird. Antarctica will honour the occasion in For the first time two scientists from company with a group of invited guests, the People's Republic of China will be some of whom took part in the first New guests of the New Zealand programme. Zealand Antarctic programme in 1957. They are Mr Ye Dezan, a microbiologist As part of the official proceedings the from the 3rd Oceanographic Institute, new accommodation block will be and Mr Wang Sheng-yuan, a geochemist commissioned. from the Institute of Geochemistry, Academy of Science. The two wil be attached to scientific parties working in MANY PROJECTS the dry valleys. Scientists from four universities will This season 160 men and women will undertake a number of field research take part in the programme during the projects, including programmes in summer months. All the continuous biology, vulcanology, glaciology, scientific studies at Scott Base will be geology, botany, paleontology, geo maintained, and the programme covers chemistry, and ornithology. Men and a wide range of disciplines, including women from the universities, Antarctic glaciology, geology, vulcanology, geo Division, Ministry of Works and Dev physics, oceanography, botany, and elopment, Geological Survey, Geo ornithology. In addition to the parties in physics Division, Physics and Engineer Northern Victoria Land and on Erebus ing Laboratory, Soil Bureau, Meteoro New Zealand will have teams working at logical Service, Institute of Nuclear Cape Adare, in the Ross Sea from a Sciences, and National Museum, will m&& ,??!'*«•.ii" **" September 1981 ANTARCTIC work on a wide range of projects. Army Carlos Plummer in the Daniels Range of construction teams will continue the the USARP Mountains later in the Scott Base rebuilding programme, and season. Post Office riggers will check aerial in Dr Cooper's party will work in the stallations. centre of the Bowers Mountains, the New Zealand science parties will begin Leitch Massif, and the Mt McCarthy their work in Northern Victoria Land area, to continue investigations of early in November and will be in the various fossiliferous units begun int he field until early January. They will be 1974-75 season. Dr Jim Jago, of the flown to a United States major base South Australian Institute of Tech camp established late next month on a nology, who is under the auspices of high snowfield at the head of the Australian National Antarctic Research Canham Glacier in the Evans Neve area. Expeditions (ANARE), worked with Dr United States Navy Hercules aircraft of Cooper in the 1974-75 season. The other VXE-6 Squadron will make about 50 members of the party are Professor Bert flights to support the operation. Rowell, University of Kansas, and Peter Braddock (field leader). Five Jamesway huts will be erected alongside a skiway to accommodate up Another Geological Survey scientist, to 100 men and women (60 scientists and Dr George Grindley, plans to establish a support staff). Three helicopters will be polar wander path for the volcanic and flown to the camp which is 648km from sedimentary rocks of Northern Victoria McMurdo Station. These will be used to Land. By comparing this with polar transport field parties to their work sites. wander paths for Australia, New Zealand, and other parts of Antarctica, Using motor toboggans and sledges Dr Grindley will test the reconstruction the five New Zealand parties will remain of Eastern Gondwanaland, and check in the field for extended periods, calling the possibility of large (greater than on helicopter support for movement to 500km) strike dip movements between other sites if required. Two of the parties Australia and Antarctica, and with An will be led by Geological Survey scientists tarctic, since the early Paleozoic period. who have worked in Northern Victoria Land in previous seasons. HELICOPTER SUPPORT In the first three weeks of November, Dr Grindley will work with Dr Plummer's SLEDGING TEAM party in the Daniels Range. Towards the Dr Malcolm Laird will take a sledging end of the month he will be joined by Dr team into the Bowers Mountains in an Peter Oliver (Geological Survey). Using attempt to define the regional extent of a combination of helicopter and motor the Bowers Supergroup. He and Dr toboggan support the pair will visit out John Bradshaw, geology department. crops in the Gallipoli Heights, Canham University of Canterbury, and Dr Chris Glacier, Lanterman Range, Leitch Adams, Institute of Nuclear Sciences, Massif, Morozumi Range, Mariner will resolve outstanding stratigraphic Glacier, and Mt McCarthy regions. structural and correlation problems An Antarctic Division geologist, Dr created after Dr Laird's 1974-75 exped Bob Findlay, will lead a sledging party ition to the area. The field leader in the of four on a traverse from the Lyttelton team is Ken Sullivan. Range to the Milieu Range in an effort, This group's area of operations will be to look at structural and sedimen- the edge of the Rennick Glacier, the tological aspects of the Robertson Bay Bowers Mountains, the Mariner Glacier, Group rocks. With him will be a and Mt McCarthy. It will amalgamate Geological Survey geologist, Brad Field, with the other Geological Survey party Walter Fowlie (field leader) and Bill led by Dr Roger Cooper for scientific- Atkinson (field assistant). reasons and also because Dr Adams will A former New Zealand geologist, Dr join a United States project led by Dr Barrie McKelvey, now of the University SU -^f^/^TAt^J^r ANTARCTIC September 1981 of New England, Armidale, New South on the volcano has transmitted signals to Wales, who is under ANARE auspices, recorders at Scott Base 30km away dur plans to study the Beacon Supergroup of ing the 1981 winter.
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