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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From Grahamland to South Georgia and to Halley Dec 66 to Jan 67
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On visiting bases in Grahamland some Husky pups are collected to be taken to Halley Bay  - this is to replenish the Husky stock.

Christmas 1966 was spent at Potters Cove, a small inlet at the top of the Antarctic Peninsula, where there were Adelie and Chinstrap penguins.

After Christmas - it was back to Port Stanley and a change of ship witha transfer onto the Danish M.V Perla Dan to complete the journey to Halley Bay via South Georgia. On the Island of South Georgia they are King Penguins and remants of a whaling station. Sir Ernest Shackleton is buried here.

On leaving South Georgia, a Japanese Whaling ship is seen anchored. The Perla Dan continues down into the Eastern side of the Weddell Sea, all the time searching and following 'open sea" wherever it can  found but always heading south. The Weddell Sea is nearly always covered in sea ice and a route has to be found through areas where the sea ice has boken up and leaves a stretch of open water. The Perla Dan finally arrives at Halley Bay 75deg south, in January 1967

 

 

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