THE PUBLICATION OF THE NEW ZEALAND ANTARCTIC SOCIETY Vol 31, No. 1, 2013 31, No. Vol RRP $15.95 Tyggrve Gran – Endurance on Ice and in War Vol 31, No. 1, 2013 Issue 223 www.antarctic.org.nz Contents is published quarterly by the New Zealand Antarctic Society Inc. ISSN 0003-5327 The New Zealand Antarctic Society is a Registered Charity CC27118 Please address all publication enquiries to: PUBLISHER: Gusto P.O. Box 11994, Manners Street, Wellington Tel (04) 499 9150, Fax (04) 499 9140 Email: [email protected] EDITOR: Natalie Cadenhead P.O. Box 404, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand 4 Email: [email protected] ASSISTANT EDITOR: Janet Bray INDEXER: Mike Wing NEWS Antarctic Round Up 1 PRINTED BY: Excel Digital, Wellington This publication is printed using vegetable- EDUCATION Experience living and working in based inks onto media gloss, which is a stock Antarctica through the Postgraduate sourced from sustainable forests with PEFC (Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certificate in Antarctic Studies 3 Certification), EMAS (The EU Eco-Management & Audit Scheme) & ISO accreditations. HISTORY Heroic Era Antarctic Explorers in Antarctic is distributed in flow biowrap. World War I 4 Edward Atkinson’s skis returned to Patron of the New Zealand Antarctic Society: Patron: Professor Peter Barrett, 2008. The Antarctic Heritage Trust 9 Immediate Past Patron: Sir Edmund Hillary. SCIENCE Investigating Bromine Explosion NEW ZEALAND ANTARCTIC SOCIETY Events in Antarctica 11 LIFE MEMBERS The Society recognises with life membership, those people who excel in furthering the ARTS A Father For My Son 12 aims and objectives of the Society or who have given outstanding service in Antarctica. TRIBUTE John Macdonald 13 They are elected by vote at the Annual General Meeting and are restricted to 15 life EVENTS Oamaru Scott 100 – a personal view 14 members at any time. Current Life Members by the year elected: BOOK REVIEW Tide Cracks and Sastrugi 16 1. Bernard Stonehouse (UK), 1966 2. John Claydon (Canterbury), 1980 3. Jim Lowery (Wellington), 1982 4. Robin Ormerod (Wellington), 1996 5. Eric Gibbs (Wellington), 1997 6. Baden Norris (Canterbury), 2003 7. Bill Cranfield (Canterbury), 2003 8. Randal Heke (Wellington), 2003 9. Bill Hopper (Wellington), 2004 10. Malcolm Laird (Canterbury), 2006 11. Arnold Heine (Wellington), 2006 Cover photo: 12. Margaret Bradshaw (Canterbury), 2006 Tyggrve Gran, December 1911. Photograph by Frank Debenham. Image courtesy Canterbury Museum:2003.84.10 13. Ray Dibble (Wellington), 2008 14. Norman Hardie (Canterbury), 2008 15. Vacant Issue 223 NEWS Antarctic Round Up General great-grandson) travelled to Scott Base Portrait of Antarctica – on one of the first C-17 Globemaster Antarctic Youth Ambassador forty years on flight last spring to take up a role as Since 1957 youth have visited Antarctica This talk at Unitec in Auckland was Field Training Instructor for the summer with the New Zealand Antarctic presented by Jonathan Walton who has season with Antarctica New Zealand. Programme. The Antarctic Youth been involved in Antarctic events for 40 years including over eight visits to the Ambassador scheme aims to engage Ice. Three generations of his family have young New Zealanders in Antarctic January worked in the Antarctic and as far as environmental issues. Application 2013 Shackleton Epic he knows they are the only father and forms and background information can A team of six led by Tim Jarvis have son combination to have received the be found on the Sir Peter Blake Trust successfully re-enacted Shackleton’s Polar Medal. He described the scientific website. Applications close on 30 May journey in the James Caird including work he did for months at a time, living 2013. For more information see: http:// traversing South Georgia Island in tents and travelling by skidoo. His www.sirpeterblaketrust.org/blake- to reach Stromness. The men used illustrated talk told anecdotes of his leaders/antarctic-youth-ambassadors/ reproduction equipment and clothing many visits south including his most to that of the expedition 100 years recent visit as a lecturer on board the Four Generations of Antarctican’s before and used a replica lifeboat for MV Ocean Nova. the journey, navigating with sextants. More information can be found at New Antarctic Trail http://www.timjarvis.org/shackletonepic/ for Christchurch Members from The New Zealand Antarctic Society Canterbury Branch worked with the Christchurch City Council to create a new Antarctic heritage trail for Christchurch. This was necessary due to the number of places on the existing trail which either no longer exists or are not accessible since Four generations of Antarctican’s. Image courtesy Grant Hunter. the earthquakes. The new trail takes in some of the lessor known Antarctic Anne Hunter sent in this photograph related sites such as domestic dwellings showing four generations in her family on Park Terrace, St Saviour’s Anglican who have connections to Antarctica. Church and Linwood Cemetery. The They are posed with Herbert Ponting’s Tim Jarvis, Leader of the Shackleton Epic team. trail pamphlet is available from the Frozen exhibition hosted by Canterbury Christchurch City Council. Museum in association with IceFest, February September - October 2012. Second to left Bond Street Explorers at the back of Ponting’s photograph is The Sculpting Scott Club Tour – Lyttelton William (Bill) McDonald, Able Seaman, Mark Stocker from the Department A musical event with a difference was Terra Nova expedition 1911-12 and of History and Art History at the held in the Wunderbar on London 1912-13. His son Alan McDonald, University of Otago gave a talk Street, Lyttelton, Christchurch when an seated, did not travel to Antarctica but at Canterbury Museum titled The Auckland based alternative-folk music ‘talked’ many aircraft southward during Sculpting Scott. He discussed the art group Bond Street Bridge performed his 40 years working in communications and life of Kathleen Scott (1878-1947) a multi-media song cycle titled The with the Civil Aviation Authority at including her visits to New Zealand Explorer’s Club: Antarctica. Christchurch International Airport. and the other talented people she Alan’s daughter Anne (Hunter) travelled associated with. These ranged from The performance presented a series of by ship to Antarctica in 2001, and Francis Bacon to Lawrence of Arabia, vignettes - tales of courage, endurance visited again in the 2006-07 season to Auguste Rodin. Stocker described and Edwardian pluck inspired by the when studying for the University of Kathleen as “the most famous widow diaries and letters of Robert Falcon Scott Canterbury’s Graduate Certificate in in the English speaking world after the and Ernest Shackleton. The spoken- Antarctic Studies. Her son Richie (Bill’s death of Queen Victoria”. word storytelling and original folk song Vol 31, No. 1, 2013 1 NEWS combination was illustrated with projected Antarctic Link Canterbury meeting Korean Polar Research Institute will images from Auckland artist Emily Carter Antarctic Link Canterbury was formed in focus on are; polar climate change, and photographs from the expeditions. 2000 by founder members: Christchurch biodiversity and adaptation of polar City Council, Antarctica New Zealand, organisms, studies of tectonic structures The event organisers expected that Gateway Antarctica, International and investigations into new emerging “audiences can expect to be transported Antarctic Centre, Christchurch and science including ice core drilling and back to a time when the ice was Canterbury Marketing. Since then the meteorite studies. unforgiving, the Pole was untouched, organisation has flourished, supporting the Antarctic Festival, commissioning an and if the worst came to the worst, one economic impact study and welcoming could always eat the dogs”. new members including the United States Antarctic Programme, Council of Scott Centenary Celebrations – Managers of National Antarctic Program Oamaru (COMNAP), the National Institute of The Scott 100 celebrations were well Water & Atmospheric Research (NIWA), attended in Oamaru and commemorated the Antarctic Heritage Trust (AHT), Heritage Expeditions and the New the arrival of the Terra Nova on 10th Zealand Antarctic Society. February 1913 into Oamaru Harbour bearing the news of the Terra Nova expedition and the fate of the Polar Party. Over five days the harbour town Dongmin Jin, Base Manager for Jan Bojo Station. hosted many events including sea and Image courtesy Korean Polar Research Institute. land activities, education and adventure programmes, art, literature and lectures. June Jenny Coverack travelled from the UK to Oamaru to deliver two performances of Australian/New Zealand Antarctic her one woman play, A Father for my Son Conference in Hobart which is based on the life of Kathleen Scott. Registration is now open for the Strategic Science in Antarctica conference to be held from 24 to 26 June 2013 at the March University of Tasmania in Hobart. The Capital E National Arts Festival, Jan Bojo Station. Image courtesy Korean Polar inaugural conference is a collaboration Wellington Research Institute. between the Australian Antarctic This substantial festival included events Division and Antarctica New Zealand, and will feature a number of key note from inspired by both the Arctic and The March meeting included a speakers, science presentations, poster Antarctic. The Java Dance Company presentation from Hong Kum Lee of the displays and social functions. A series of performed Down Below Beneath, Korean Polar Research Institute (KOPRI). post-conference workshops will also take inspired by a Morgan Foundation The presentation gave an overview of place on 27 and 28 June. Project, Our Far South, which aimed to the Institute which is supported by the Korean Government. KOPRI’s main raise awareness of the Southern Ocean The conference will provide an functions are science, raising awareness and the sub-Antarctic area. opportunity for Antarctic scientists, of Antarctica, collaborating with overseas researchers, policy and support institutes and providing the Korean personnel from institutions across Government with advice on polar Australia and New Zealand to exchange affairs.