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 r ^*"'- ! G ■ i % HEY! YOU DON'T BELONG HERE! A straying Adelie penguin chick gets little sympathy —Photo F. O'Leary, Dominion Musoum DECEMBER, 1965 Winter and Summerbises. Scott S u m m e r b a s e o n l y . t H a l l e f r NEW ZEALAND Transferred base Wilkes U S tvAust Temporarily non-operational *Syowa TASMANIA , C»mphill I. (N.l) Mitquarie I. _Ma"e* (i/.ij Fj'iitt ia$«rC INU-'jIS N/A-.mH«.n-Sc0lt(t/.5.; A A N TV A R fe\ \ »0a.vlO~A frrttf A , *f * M i wA i t f h \ ■■ (i!rlnd \ # • / ^^a .Marion I. (JMJ DRAWN »Y DEPARTMENT OF LANDS 1 Sl"*VE' WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND, MAR.I»b+- 1-." EDITION ee £ (Successor to "Antarctic News Bulletin") Vol. 4, No. 4 DECEMBER, 1965 Editor: L. B. Quarter-main, M.A., 1 Ariki Road, Wellington, E.2, New Zealand. Assistant Editor: Mrs. R. H. Wheeler. Business Communications, Subscriptions, etc., to: Secretary, New Zealand Antarctic Society, P.O. Box 2110, Wellington, N.Z. CONTENTS EXPEDITIONS New Zealand Spring Journey to Cape Crozier: D. R. Lowe N.Z. 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J. Drunimond and F. N. Blaekwell five-year phase of the University's re from the Ministry of Works will be in search in the Antarctic. vestigating electrical and mechanical ser The party to go south in November vices, especially the problems associated was Dr. Bernard Stonehouse. leader: with the installation next summer of new Ian Spellerberg. who will observe Mc- generators at the Base. Brian P. Sand- Cormick skuas for the third season: Gre- ford and G. A. M. King, both veterans gor Yeates, who will spend his second of earlier New Zealand expeditions, will season on behaviour studies of Adelic be checking the Scott Base Auroral and penguins: Ian Harkess of the Canterbury Ionospheric equipment respectively. branch of the New Zealand Antarctic- As guests of the Antarctic Division the Society, and John Darby, a university following spent about a week in the Ross photographic technician, who will mark Dependency in early November: Mr. seal pups (I-Iarkness for the second sea R. W. Wiliett (Director, Geological Sur son); Ian Stirling, who will arrive from vey, and deputy Chairman Ross Depen Canada in December to take up a teach dency Research Committee), Mr. A. H. ing fellowship in zoology and study Wed Newton (for many years treasurer of the dell seals in the Antarctic: and Robert N.Z. Antarctic Society), Mr. J. A. D. Kirk, who will run the weather station Nash (scientific adviser to the Assistant at Cape Royds. and investigate micro Director-General D.S.I.R.), Mr. V. A. Lc climates and the temperatures of fresh Page (senior administrative officer, water lakes. D.S.I.R.), Mr. L. White (External Affairs Department, who signed the Antarctic NOW—THE SNARES Treaty for New Zealand), Mr. C. Green Applications arc now being made for (in charge of technical aspects, Meteoro finance to make future studies in the sub- logical Service), and Mr. M. S. Nestor Antarctic islands, centred in the Snares (scientific adviser, National Party). group, where the university zoology de Commenting upon New Zealand's re partment established a small research la cord in publishing the results of her boratory in 1961. Antarctic reseearch projects, Mr. Wiliett A five-year programme based on the says, "One third of the Antarctic Con Snares was planned to train students on tinent's exposed rock is in the Ross De the Sub-Antarctic and also to make a pendency, which gives New Zealand an complete ecological survey of this un obligation to do the best work possible touched and unspoiled area, study the in the area. It is difficult to predict . New Zealand fur seal, the brown skua, and the second a fault in the radar, put the southern population of the red-billed sub-title.