Burton Island (AGB 1) - Naval Cruise Book

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Above: Ramp for vehicles at the South Pole, showing the Wonder Arch that has made it possible to protect several stations far out on the ice from drifting snow. At right: The storage tunnel at Byrd. Note ice crystals on the overhead. small, brooding man with gray hair is Dr. Edgar Picciotto, who will lead the 1,000-mile overland traverse from the Pole of Imac. cessibility to Plateau Station. Although heis Italian and represents Ohio State University, his base is the Free University of Brussels and he is talking to the Honorable Alfred van der Essen, Director of the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who has just landed in the Herc. This is supposed to be the most isolated place on earth, but the most wretched Arab insists, Where I stand is the center of the world. Sir Charles Wright says, 'iThe upper atmosphere is a much livelier and more interesting place in the region of the poles. The magnetic lines of force extend straight outward here, and they act as funnels for charged particles from the sun. Also the pole is remote from large centers of man-made and natural radio disturbances, and it has the advantage of being stationary in space. There are now 45 people here, double the winter popu- lation. The number will drop as soon as the traverse party leaves, rising again when men arrive to get used to the altitude before going out to build the new Plateau Station. A tall blond young man hands alarge carton to Lcdr Brabec, the plane commander. Ronnie Stephen, meteorologist in charge at the Pole, is sending three Eppley pyrheliometers back to McMurdo for calibration. They are on the order of 150-watt light bulbs but more delicate, and they measure the amount of radiation that comes directly from the sun. He notes any changes in what he calls Hnormal incidence, such as dust from the 1962 eruption of Mount Teal in the Philippines, which reached the Pole in about a year. When Krakatoa erupted in 1883, it threw off five cubic miles of volcanic ash, and Stephen says a mysterious cloud of '6Agung dustn remains near the Equator. Olav Orheim, a Norwegian glaciologist who is going on the traverse, sits across the table from a big man with a black beard. This is Major Jorge Raul Munoz of the Argentine Air Force, who piloted one of the tiny Beavers that flew here from the Argentine, against all sane advice. They landed first at their own General Belgrano base on the Filchner Ice Shelf and were supposed to re- turn there after three days. The DC-3 that accompanied them - with an auxiliary jet engine installed in its tail - is now being repaired at McMurdo. Munoz looks like a brigand. He speaks a little English and, with his flashing eyes and wicked smile, could be a character 'actor in the movies. Today is his anniversary, and he has telephoned a friend in Buenos Aires on the ham radio to send flowers to his wife, with a card he has previously signed: '4Love, George. He got up at six oiclock this morning to call her. She say, 'Where are you P' I say the South Pole. She say, 'HOW you send flowers P' On the left are several long tables and on the right is the gal- ley, separated from the mess by a counter on which food is piled in what seems unnecessary quantity. Yet, at these temperatures, the body needs half again as many calories. The early eXpl0ICTS ate 50035, 21 pemmican stew, although it is too rich and fatty to be eaten in a normal climate. 66

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