26th of June
Historical Antarctic
Pictures and Events
Ernest Shackleton, British Antarctic Expedition on the ship Nimrod, 1907- 1909.
1908 - Ernest Shackleton and Ernest Joyce (in charge of dogs) in New Zealand on the way south to Antarctica, from a newspaper cutting.
1964 - First winter flight and landing in Antarctica. A medevac (medical evacuation) of an injured base member from McMurdo to Christchurch New Zealand. BU1 Bethel McMullen was injured in a fall, on 20 June he had suffered a severe back injury in the fire house after sliding down the pole head first (really!) The firehouse was then in the large Quonset hut which would later became Hill Cargo (Building 61), northeast of Building 155.
