Interview of Robert L. Chaudoin by Dian O. Belanger

• Main Author: Chaudoin, Robert L.
• Other Authors: Belanger, Dian Olson, 1941-
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Byrd Polar Research Center Archival Program 2009
• Subjects: United States. Navy. Seabees > Interviews; Military engineers > Interviews; Operation Deep Freeze; Oral history; Arctic regions > Discovery and exploration > Interviews; Polar regions > Discovery and exploration > Interviews; Antarctica > Discovery and exploration > Interviews; Chaudoin; Robert L. > Interviews; Antarctic; Arctic; Bellingshausen Sea; Canham; Christchurch; South Pole; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; South pole
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1811/36746

The Antarctic Deep Freeze oral history project was funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation and supported by the Antarctic Deep Freeze Association. The original paper copies and unaltered tapes have been deposited in the library of the National Science Foundation. Yeoman Bob Chaudoin chose Antarctica for the adventure. After serving on Admiral Byrd's staff and then Task Force 43, he transferred to the Seabee battalion MCB (Special) for Deep Freeze I and sailed south on the Glacier. Working closely with Lcdr. D. W. Canham, McMurdo's officer in charge, he typed the station's daily journal (intended as a guide for later report writing) and handled other correspondence. He was a member of the South Pole construction crew and postmarked bags of philatelic mail there. Disappointed to not winter over at Pole, he later helped run the Navy's Antarctic office in Christchurch and accompanied Capt. Edwin MacDonald on a cruise in the Bellingshausen Sea. National Science Foundation Antarctic Deep Freeze Association