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

Antarctica with the exploration area marked.

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.

Flight crew run beside the plane as it taxis up.

Was there ever such a wonderful sight
as the US Navy coming to pick us up?

Geological samples now filled the food boxes.

Loading the R4D aircraft at the Tucker Glacier airlift point.

Final view of Victoria Land from the aircraft window.

Evan and Gerald on the return flight
from Tucker Glacier to Scott Base. 26 January 1963.

Diary: Introduction