A new Antarctic book about early Scott Base, Ross Island. Its building, expansion, polar transport, and life in the cold.

Scott Base Antarctica
the early years
A science technician’s view of the years 1960 and 63, including the Base’s growth from its construction and through two major extensions.

Don Webster

RRP:   Published: November 2019

ISBN:  978-0-473-45852-2

Format: Paperback 210 x 250 mm, 268 pages

Contact comments below or Don Webster, donweb@xtra.co.nz

Back cover blurb...
For two periods in the early 1960s young science technician Don Webster wintered over in Antarctica, helping build extensions to the New Zealand station at Scott Base. It was barely two years after Sir Edmond Hillary’s support of the 1957-58 Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition.

Don describes in detail the design and construction of the buildings of the base, providing an invaluable historical record of both the physical base itself and also of daily life there in the summers and winters of those early years. Storms, severe cold and aircraft accidents are described in vivid detail.

The book has 370 photographs many never before published.

DON WEBSTER retired from a career in electronics and computing now lives in the lower North Island, New Zealand with his books, cat, and computers, not necessarily, he says, in that order. During his frequent travels he has spent many weeks at the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge, England, and the archives at the Memorial University, Newfoundland, Canada.  He has visited many aircraft museums and second-hand bookshops in Canada, England and the USA.

For info about puchasing the book please Email donweb@xtra.co.nz

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