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Week 1 Arrival in Antarctica

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Tuesday 9 October 1973 Departed for Antarctica. Aircraft (C141) raised wheels at 0910 hours. On board were RB Thompson, Superintendent Ant...

Week 2 Handover Complete

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Monday 15 October 1973 Handover continues. Technicians spent the day exchanging metrological charts in the recorders and with a visit to t...

Week 3. The Weather Deteriorates

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Monday 22 October 1973 Laboratory routine proceeds as usual; a visit to Arrival Heights to check equipment and collect results; processing...

Week 4. Blowing the “Pee Glacier”

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Monday 29 October 1973 Skua’s are becoming a common sight. There were three in the pressure ridges this morning. John Bitters and the Cape...

Week 5. An unplanned cut in helicopter hours

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Monday 5 November 1973 Today we still had no helicopters flying. A helo has broken down at Cape Crozier and the weather has not been good....

Week 6. It’s a squeeze at Vanda

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Monday 12 November 1973 At last we have all our field parties away from the Base. Janet Crump with Events 8 & 9 is at Shapeless Mounta...

Week 7. Counting Penguins at Cape Royds

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Monday 19 November 1973 Late last night the Royds party got in. They had difficulty in finding their way across the sea ice from Cape Evan...

Week 8. Monoxide poisoning

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Monday 26 November 1973 Today Dr Tazieff, Phillip Kyle, Lin sparks and Murray Kidd got away on an outgoing C141. Coming in was Bruce McLau...

Week 9. Visitors and one of the husky’s dies

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Monday 3 December 1973 In the morning we continued to show our visitors a further aspect of our Base (viz the maintenance and works commit...

Week 10. A fatality and lessons learned

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Monday 10 December 1973 On going in to breakfast I found the late mouse had done an inadequate job. Ross Cooper, the culprit, has now volu...