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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Halley Bay I Year of 1967
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      The sun reappears - daylight returns and one of the first jobs is to dig the Site. Tthe tunnel connecting huts needs digging out.    The All-sky camera hut has to be dug out and brought back onto the surface.

As Spring approaches pastimes create some digressions and interest.  A landyacht  built from dexion  - unfortunately needing about 12-15 knots of wind to move it with the result that visibilty was too bad to use it.   A 45 gallon drum and dexion becomes a "steamroller??"  A model aircraft suffers a single flight.  

 

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