Burton Island (AGB 1) - Naval Cruise Book

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s can an - an isolated place they can be seen more easily by search aircraft. Half a dozen toy airplanes with miniature motors are tied up out of the Way, someone asks if they are technical gadgets for the USARPS at the Pole. HThose are for the crew to play With, says Lt Leroy Frontz, the co-pilot. A short, steep ladder leads to the flight deck - too small for a fistfight yet holding the plane commander, co-pilot, navigator, flight engineer, and perhaps a visiting congressman, as well as two folding bunks, a chart table, a small galley, and a mass of instruments including TACAN, radar, radio, and a periscopic sextant. Ltjg lim Lacey, the navigator, prefers to shoot the sun, since compasses are unreliable so close to the Pole. At left, top: Cape Crozier is the nearest place where the height of the Ross Ice Shelf can be appreciated. lt runs tor perhaps 400 miles, about 100 feetot it showing above the water. The cracks are in the sea ice. Bottom: A Weddell seal weighing more than 1,000 pounds. Dr. Carleton Ray of the New York Zoological Society says that the Weddell seal is particularly valuable to the biologists because it is the only one that makes its home close to shore, under the very nose of the BioLab at McMurdog furthermore, llany wild animal as tractable as the Weddell seal is a wonder of life on this Earth and worthy of our consideration and intent. I Below: The tlight deck of a Herc.