Antarctica Ahoy!
Around Scott Base
Expedition Begins
Exploration Area
Exploration Routes
Plateau Loop map
Polar Plateau
Icy Panorama
East Quartzite Range
West Quartzite Range
Upper Glacier
Glacier Route
Middle Glacier
Lower Glacier
Final Stretch
Destination
Conclusion
Diary: Introduction
Diary: Preparation
Diary: Polar Plateau
Diary: Quartzite Xmas
Diary: Into the Glacier
Diary: Home Run
Appendix: Polar Life
Appendix: Logistics
Appendix: Mapping
Thanks
Tararua Antarctic Expedition, 1962-63
Conclusion
John Millen, Gerald Holdsworth, Ian Joice, Evan Leitch and John Hayton.
Left: John Millen,
expedition leader
and surveyor
Center: Gerald Holdsworth,
deputy leader
Right: Ian Joice,
meteorologist
Left: Evan Leitch,
geologist
left: John Hayton,
crevasse locator
Right: Frank Pearson,
surveyor
Not shown are Peter LeCouteur and Roger Lloyd,
who flew out on a reconnaissance flight that landed here two days before.
The faint roar of a aircraft became a silver speck against the sky,
which circled around the coloured smoke flares that we lit,
and soon bumped down on the glacier nearby. 26 January.
Was there ever such a wonderful sight
as the US Navy coming to pick us up?
Loading the R4D aircraft at the Tucker Glacier airlift point.
Evan and Gerald on the return flight
from Tucker Glacier to Scott Base. 26 January 1963.