Personal experience, between 1966 and 1969, of work and life on Halley Bay, a British Antarctic Survey Base, approx 75degrees South and 800 miles from the South Pole, in Antarctica.
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1968 Spring to Midwinter
 
1968 Spring to Midwinter
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 After the relief ships had departed late February1968 the old base (Halley I) moved all the scientific equipment and instrument the 2 miles up to the partly completed new base (Halley II).

 

By this time spring was well on the way and the new base huts had already sunk and been covered with snow (after only 1 year). Thus everything was lowered intot he new scientific huts via shafts and rope pulleys.