News from members: New Zealand

• Main Author: Balks, Megan R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: International Permafrost Association 2009
• Subjects: New Zealand; Antarctic; New Harbour; Ross Sea; Scott Base; South Pole; Taylor Valley; Antarc*; Antarctica; permafrost; South pole
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/4151

This year we are celebrating 50 years since the first soil/ permafrost scientific expedition in the Ross Sea Region of Antarctica. It was undertaken by Prof. John D. McCraw and Dr Graeme G. Claridge. They set off from Scott Base on the Massey Fergusson tractors that Sir Edmund Hillary took to the So...