Z-fids: Halley Bay, 1956-present

General index

27 years later
3rd Chip: see Third Chip
50th Anniversary
6 bases
2 Daves
50 Hz regulator
100 words/ month
Abandoned bases, visits to:
   Halley-I 1970 1975 1977 1978
   Halley-II 1981 1984 1984 1985
   Halley-III 1984 1984 1985 1986 1991 1994
   Halley-IV 1992
Abdul's Flying Carpet
Above-surface facilities
Acknowledgements
Admiralty Bay
Aga
Air hostess 1 2
Airport
AIS
Aladdin's
All-sky camera
Alpine-1 skidoos
Amateur Radio 1 2
Andenes
'Antarctic Crossing'
Antarctic Paintings
Antarctic Treaty Inspection
Appendicectomies 1 2 3 4
Araldite
Astronomical observations
Audio tapes, 1972 1 2
Automation 1 2
AVO
Azimuth tunnel
Baby Chasm
Bacon Bluff
Balasuaq 1 2
Balloon shed
Bars, Halley I
Bar, Halley II
Bar, Halley IV
Bar, Halley V 1 2
Bar quotes books
'Bars of Silver' 1 2
Base Commanders
BAS micro 1 2 3
Bath
BBC TV 1 2
Beard frozen to pipe
Beastie (ionosonde) 1 2
Beatles (dog team)
Beer machine
Beer ration
Beer supply
Belgrano 1 2
Bicycles 1 2 3
Black Flag
Black (Hand) Gang 1 2 3
Blood transfusion
Blogs
Blow-up doll 1 2 3 4 5 6
Bob-Pi route 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Bodges: see Fids' bodges
Bog chisel 1 2 3 4 5
The "Bog-roll"
Boiled in the bath
Bolts, missing
Bondu
Bondu Bar 1 2
Bonfire Night 1 2
Booboo
Booboo (dog)
Boo Boo's Lost Bay
Bottom of the World
RRS Bransfield 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Brass 1 2 3
Brass inlay of Antarctica 1 2
Breakfast
Brunt Ice Shelf 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Bunkroom painting
"Bunny" girls
Byrd
C130: see Hercules
Cable tensions
Caboose 1 2 3 4
Cabo Rol
Caird Coastl
Call signs 1 2
Calvings 1 2 3
CASLab
Camp cooking
"Cat Ballou"
Cats 1 2 3 4 5
"Cattle Carters" 1 2 3
Caviar
Chair sledge
"Changed (How times have)"
Changi 1 2
Chasm-1 (see also First Chasm)
Childbirth
Chilling out
Chippantodd (Creeks of) 1 2
Chris Barber
Christmas 2000
Christmas Box Hill 1 2 3
Cigars
Cintel
Circadian Rhythm
Circumnavigating the buildings
"City on ice"
CLAMP
Cliffs
Cloning
Clothing issue
Coats Station 1 2 3
Cocoa
Coffee tin shower
"Cold, flat & white"
Condoms
Cooking for 126
Container Move (video)
Copper covered bolts
Core temperatures
Cossor
Crack Depot
Crack, 1969 1 2
Crack, Hallowe'en
Creek 3
Cricket
'Crossing of Antarctica'
Crossroads Depot
Crown Agents 1 2
Cuban Missile Crisis
D line
Days with gales, most
Days with drift, most
Days with snow, most
Days with fog, most
Dates
Dental work
Depot 'Dad'
Depot Kilroy
Depot Nocker
Dexion ladders
Dillon (cat) 1 2
Dingle
Discovery
Dislocation
Dobson spectrophotometer
Dog Days on Ice
Dog kennel
Dog memorial
Dog report - 1975
Dog tunnel
Dogs, last year with
Dogs, to Stonington
Doggy Men
Dome, satellite
Dougal (cat)
Drewry Building 1 2
Drescher Inlet
Dressing gown
Dripping water
Dronning Maud Land
Dr Tom's adventure
Druzhnaya
Dynamite
Edmund Halley
Eliason motor toboggans 1 2 3 4 5
'Elsan': see Eliason
E-mail
Ellsworth
Emergency (in case of)
Emperor Bay 1 2
Endurance
HMS Endurance 1 2
Esse stove
Etchells, Mount
Fairey plane 1 2 3
  (see also Lansing Snowplane)
Falkland Islander, 1st to winter
Fame, Wall of
Fat chart
Father & daughter, first
Fatalities:
  1963
  1965
  1980
Ferguson tractors 1 2 3
FIDS 1 2
Fids' bodges
Films 1 2 3 4
Finger, The
Fire 1 2 3 4 5 6
First Chasm
Fishing
Flagpole
Flags (sledging) 1 2 3
Flood
Flying Club 1 2
Food essences
Foxtrac 1 2
Frosty
"Frostyballs"
Frozen in the Armco
Garage (mobile)
Garage ramp 1 2
Gardening
Gash pit 1 2
Gateway
Gill (hydrogen generator)
Gill Route
Gin
Gin Bottle 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
USCGC Glacier
"Gladys" (IH tractor)
Glossaries
Golf
Golf course
Golly's Folly 1 2 3
Goon Show
Greenhouse
Grillage Village 1 2 3 4
Grillage Village reunion 2018
Hairy builders
Halley I (1960) 1 2
Halley II
Halley III 1 2
Halley IV 1 2 3 4
Halley V 1 2 3 4
Halley V construction
Halley V, end of
Halley VI
Halley VI construction 1 2 3
Halley VI virtual tour
Halley VI temporary closure 2017
"Halley Arms"
Halley Bay 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Halley Fable
Halley's Comet
Handover IGYE to FIDS
Ham radio: see Amateur radio
Harmony Bay
Heimefrontfjella 1 2 3
Helicopters 1 2 3
Hercules C130s 1 2 3 4 5
High Street
Hinge zone 1 2 3 4
History of Halley Buildings
Hobbits 1 2 3 4
'Holiday' 1 2 3
Honeypots
Hot tub
Hovercraft
Hussein, King
Hut design comments
Hydroponics
Ice axes
Ice cream
Ice Thickness Radar Expedition
Igarka
IGC (International Geophysical Cooperation) 1 2
Igloo
IGY (International Geophysical Year) 1 2 3
IGYE 1 2 3 4
IGYE film
IGY Hut 1 2 3 4 5
IGY Relics
IH (International Harvester) tractors 1 2 3
IH falls in crevasse
IH falls through sea ice
IH tractor recovery 1 2 3
Imitation beams and brick fireplace
Inmarsat communications
Internet
IQSY (International Quiet Sun Year) 1 2
ITN
RRS James Clark Ross 1 2
JATO 1 2 3
Jelly Chasm
Jogging
RRS John Biscoe 1 2
Kapitan Khlebnikov 1 2
Kipper tin (exploding)
Kista (cat)
MV Kista Dan 1 2 3 4
Kites
La Cour hut
Landfall, 6 Jan 1956
Lansing Snowplane 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Licking cold metal
Liver Building
Lobster Tails
Longjohns windsock
Lost in blizzard 1 2
Low shelf
Lyddan Ice Rise: see Christmas Box Hill
MS Magga Dan 1 2 3
"Magic Days"
Magic Roundabout
Malik Arctica (ship) 1 2
Mannefallknausane
Matterhorn
McDonald Ice Rumples 1 2 3 4 5
McMurdo 1 2 3
Mead
Meatbar
Medals
Medevacs: 1967 1989
Medical Problems
Medical Research
Melt tank bath
Memorial 1 2 3 4
Met: "Antarctic practice"
Micro-turbine 1 2
Middle Dump
Midwinter 1979
Midwinter and other magazines:
  1960 Halley Comet
  1961 Halley Comet
  1966 Spasmodic Times
  1966 Pengwinge
  1968 Feenix
  1969 Feenix
  1970 Mushroom
  1971 Slush
  1972 Splode
  1979 Splode
  1980 Halley Comet
Midwinter menu
Millennium
Milorgfjella
Miraculous recovery
Mobster Creek 1 2 3
Mobsters 1 2 3 4
Model, Halley 5
Modern Jazz Quartet
Monster Chasm
Monument Valley
Morrison
Motorbikes 1 2 3 4 5
Motto & shield
Movement, horizontal 1 2
Muckletappers (dog team)
Muckletappers Creek
Muskeg tractors 1 2 3 4 5 6
N9
Name change
Newcastle Brown (frozen)
Neumayer
New balloon shed (1965)
New generator shed (1962)
New hut 1964
New living hut (1961)
Newsletters
New tractor garage (1962)
Nicknames
Non-magnetic huts and tunnel (1962)
Northampton
Nurses
Obituaries:
  Les Barclay
  Jim Blackie
  Bruce Blackwell
  Dave (Gonk) Hoy
  John Nockels
  Martin Pinder
  Johnny Raymond
  James Squires
  Dave Townsend
  Graham Wright
Observatory
On Antarctica
On Floating Ice
Onion
Oral history recordings:
  1956 1957 1961 1963 1964 1967
  1968 1970 1972 1975 1977 1979
  1983 1998 1999 2000
Ozone hut
Ozone over Halley in the IGY
PACE radar
Parachute 1 2 3 4
Parafoil
Party, long
Penguins 1 2 3 4
Penguin, domesticated
Penguin chick, stuffed 1 2
In Search of a Penguin's Egg
Perimeter
Perla Dan 1 2
Peter, Paul and Mary
Pi Inlet
Piano 1 2 3 4 5
Piggott Bay
Pipe, bendy
Place names 1 2 3 4
Plateau balloon launch
Plug Hole Effect
Polaroid
Polarsirkel
Polarstern
Poly bags
Postmark
Power Down 1967
Power Down 2014
Precious Bay
Pressure, highest
Pressure,lowest
Projector repair
Pyramid Rock 1 2 3
Racal receiver
Radar lounge (IGY hut)
Radio pills
Refugio
Relief by air, Feb 2002 1 2
Relief, missing
Relief, poor
Relocation of Halley
Return of the Sun
Reunions:
  Reunion, 1981
  Reunion, 2001
  Reunions (for 1964/65)
  Reunion, 2001 (for 1966)
  Reunion, 2002 (for 1991/92)
  Reunion, 2007 (for 1977)
  Reunion, 2008 (for 1984/87)
  Reunion, 2009 (for 1977)
  Reunion, 2013 (for 1977)
  Reunion, 2015 (for 1977)
  Reunion, 2016 (for 1986/87)
  Reunion, 2016 (for 1966)
  Reunion, 2017 (for 1969-70)
  Reunion, 2017 (for 1977)
  Reunion, 2018 (for Halley-II)
  Reunion, 2020 (for 1977)
  Midwinter, 2020 (for 1977)
  Midwinter, 2020 (for 1966)
  Reunion, 2021 (for 1969-70)
  Reunion, 2021 (for 1977)
  Reunion, 2023 (for 1986/87)
  Reunion, 2023 (for 1967-70)
Ribs, fractured
Riiser-Larsen ice shelf 1 2
'Rita's Bar' 1 2
Rooftop Expedition
Roof voids (Z4): see Voids
Royal Society 1 2 3
Royal Society Base Survey
Russians
Sail
Sanae 1 2
Sanitation Blues
San Martin 1 2 3
SASSI
Schlitz beer 1 2 3
Scradge 1 2
Second Chasm
Sea-bed grabbing
Seletar (dog)
RRS Shackleton
RRS Ernest Shackleton 1 2 3 4 5
Shackleton Mountains 1 2 3 4 5 6
'Shell History of Motor Racing' 1 2
Shelleen, Mount
Shem
Shovels
Signpost 1 2 3 4
Sink cavern
Sivorgfjella
Ski trip 2018
Skidoos 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Slang
Sledge bags 1 2 3 4 5
Sledge Dog memorial
Sledging Diary 1964
Slippers
Slipper skis
Snocat 1 2
Snowball fights
Solar event upsets comms
Sondes, windmill
Sondes, Graw
Sophia Loren
South Pole
Spaceflight simulator
Spon
SPRI
Sputnik I
Squadcall radios 1 2
Stag party
Stalacshite 1 2
Stancomb Wills Glacier
USS Staten Island
Stella nunatak
Stoney Berg
"Streak", Midwinter 1 2 3 4 5
Streaking
String & Scissors
Strippers
Strom & Ness 1 2 3 4 5
Stumpy 1 2 3 4
Suaq; see Balasuaq
Sunday service
Sunset
Sunshine Recorder
Super Bowl
Sweat
Swimming
Synchronome Master Clocks
TAE 1 2 3
Teeth, false 1 2
Teleprinters 1 2
Telescope
Temperature, highest
Temperature, highest (monthly mean)
Temperature, highest (annual mean)
Temperature, lowest
Temperature, lowest (monthly mean)
Temperature, lowest (annual mean)
Tent disintegration
Tetleys Creek
Theron mountains 1 2 3
Third Chip 1 2 3
Tin tray leaps
Toilets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Tomatoes
Tooth crown lost & found
Top Ten
MV Tottan 1 2 3 4
Tottanfjella (mountains) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tourist ship, first 1 2
'Tram (The Last)' 1 2 3 4 5
TransGlobe Expedition
Trousers, army
Treacle Miners 1 2
Troglodytes 1 2
Tudor style sitting room
Tunnel
Turdicle 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Twin Otters 1 2 3
UFO at Halley Bay?
UHF radio test
Underground Sign 1 2
Under Milk Wood
Vahsel Bay 1 2 3
Vestfjella 1 2
Videos
Visit, shortest
VLF
VLF hut
VLF hut fire
VLF plateau station 1 2
Voids 1 2
Wall of Fame
Washing Up Bay
Web diary
USCGC Westwind
WF1 radar
WF2 radar 1 2
Whale Meat Sausage
Whisky Bottle
Why it is where it is
Why work there?
Windows
Wind speed, highest
Wind speed, highest (5 min avg.)
Wind speed, highest gust
"winter skies..."
Wintering statistics
Winters, 3 consecutive
Woman visitor, first
Women winterers, first
Women at Halley 1 2
Women, percentage of winterers
Wright Line
USS Wyandot 1 2
Z-50
Z-60
Zebedee (cat)
Z-fids Newsletters
ZZ top dance

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