Halley Bay - 1963

• Geology and Survey work begins in the Tottans
• Mann swept away when sledging on the sea ice in Halley Bay with a four-dog training team. Memorial cairn erected near site of the accident (later moved to base).
• Eliason motor toboggans (Elsans) introduced
• Webasto heaters introduced for Muskeg tractors
• Penguin rookery moves from Emperor Bay to Third Chip

Pictures

Base photo:

M J Winterton - B Kraehenbuehl - D Hollas - J C Griffiths - G T Bowra - M E B Walford M Sumner - D R Jehan - D L Petrie - M M Samuel - Kista - D Egerton - D Finlayson N S Mann - A J Champness - J P Holt - C J S Jefferies - N Brind - J V B Westwood R J Worsfold - H M O'Gorman - P I Whiteman - G D Mallinson - I L Buckler - W A Etchells

Picture supplied by Tony Jackson

Eliason:

Photo by Gordon Bowra

Gordon says: "Re the message in the Z-Fids Newsletter No. 32: Eliason Motor Toboggan aka Elsan: this is my photo of Dad Etchells driving it in 1963 at Halley Bay. I do not know what happened to it." [04 July 2013]

Halley Motto & Crest

Oral History Recordings

• Gordon Bowra
• Alan Etchells
• Dudley Jehan
• David Petrie
• Maurice Sumner

Other information, anecdotes etc.

My enduring memory of Gordon [Bowra] was his sceaming when we were in the process of euthenising the cat "Strom" (from South Georgia). In its final death throws it latched very hard onto Gordon's finger with its teeth and would not let go after Gordon had administered a lethal dose of morphine. I think Gordon probably still bears the scars. The cat had eaten a lot of indigestible wood shavings and had to be put down. [25 May 2005] More on cats.

• IGY Relics by Doug Finlayson
• Ice Radar Expedition by Doug Finlayson

Andrew Champness:

How long does a party last? A few hours, a day or two may be! Not in June 1963. I celebrated my 21st birthday on the 28th June, 1963; it was also Midwinter the week before, so you guessed - it the party lasted well over a week.
I had collected all my beer ration for months. John Holt made me a large birthday cake in the shape of a book, with an open page which everybody signed and which I still have to-day. [23 August 2006]

• False teeth in the gash pit and other memories by Andrew Champness. Martin Winterton's comment.

  Links

  • Neville Mann
  • Gordon Bowra

  Summer 1962-63

  Franks J.L. (Jim) Visiting Dogman

  Smith R.B. (Robert) American Exchange Scientist