McMurdo Sound

Date: 1963

From: Mallitte, Howard Leon, 1910-1979 :[Antarctic material relating to 1963 expedition of HMNZS Endeavour to Scott Base and Hallett Station] 1963

Reference: B-117-039

Description: Shows a mother seal and pup lying together on the ice. Other Titles - Six Other Titles - 23 October 1963 Other Titles - Weddell Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pastel, 240 x 304 mm.

Date: 1963

From: Mallitte, Howard Leon, 1910-1979 :[Antarctic material relating to 1963 expedition of HMNZS Endeavour to Scott Base and Hallett Station] 1963

By: Mallitte, Howard Leon, 1910-1979

Reference: C-056-014

Description: Shows the ship Endeavour at the left, and men involved with unloading caterpillar tractors labelled TransAntarctic Expedition. Other Titles - 18 December 1963 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 900 x 580 mm.

From: Wilson, Edward Adrian, 1872-1912 :[Antarctic watercolours. 1911] Cambridge, Scott Polar Research Institute, 1974.

Reference: B-071-017

Description: A view in low light across water towards the setting sun, with a cape in the foreground, its peak marked with a cross, a range of mountains in the distance. Robert Falcon Scott and his party, including Wilson, were at McMurdo Sound in April 1911 Extended Title - S.P.R.I. Art Series, no 2 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 237 x 153 mm, on sheet 254 x 330 mm

Date: 1963

From: Mallitte, Howard Leon, 1910-1979 :[Antarctic material relating to 1963 expedition of HMNZS Endeavour to Scott Base and Hallett Station] 1963

Reference: B-117-059

Description: Shows a man inside the hut working at some equipment on a bench at the right. Other Titles - 15 December 1963 Other Titles - McMurdo Sound Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Crayon, 380 x 508 mm. Provenance: Donated by NZ Tourist and Publicity Department, 30 March 1976.

Date: [ca 1979]

From: Wilkes, Owen, 1940-2005 : Papers

Reference: 2005-338-111

Description: Quantity: 1 box(es).

Date: 1951-1952, 1954

From: Falla, Robert Alexander (Sir), 1901-1979 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-2366-325

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1963

From: Mallitte, Howard Leon, 1910-1979 :[Antarctic material relating to 1963 expedition of HMNZS Endeavour to Scott Base and Hallett Station] 1963

Reference: B-117-046

Description: Shows a view on the deck of a ship helping to free the "Endeavour" from sea ice, at Horseshoe Bay, McMurdo Sound. A red helicopter hovers over the "Endeavour". The peak of Burton Island can be seen in the background. Other Titles - 23 December 1963 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and pastel, 370 x 440 mm. Provenance: Donated by NZ Tourist and Publicity Department, 30 March 1976.

From: Wilson, Edward Adrian, 1872-1912 :[Antarctic watercolours. 1911] Cambridge, Scott Polar Research Institute, 1974.

Reference: B-071-019

Description: A view in low light across water towards the sun in a pink and grey sky, with a rocky outcrop in the foreground. A man and two dogs are in the foreground looking at the view Extended Title - S.P.R.I. Art Series, no 2 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 149 x 226 mm, on sheet 254 x 330 mm

Date: [1981]

From: Kennedy, Ronald Edwin, 1925-2003 :[Original cartoons, albums of clippings and a metal printing plate, created by and belonging to Ronald Kennedy (Ronken), ca 1967-1983]

By: Kennedy, Ronald Edwin, 1925-2003; Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: A-454-441

Description: A man wearing winter coat, boots and cap with “US” is offering a penguin a joint. He is saying “Grass for the penguins!”. He is standing next to a sign that says “McMurdo Station”. Caption reads “Drugs smuggled to Antarctica – News”. Title taken from item. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink drawing, 245 x 210 mm

Date: 1956-1986 - 2019-2020

From: Heine, Janice, 1940-2021: Collection

Reference: Series-6918

Description: Material created by Arnold Heine and Janice Heine relating to their trips to the Antarctic. Comprises: - Diaries handwritten by Arnold Heine during his trips to the Antarctic between 1956 and 1986. - Diaries written by Janice Heine during her trips to the Antarctic in 1981 and 1982. - Digital files made by Janice Heine which contain transcribed excerpts from Arnold Heine's Antarctic diaries, scanned photographs, and supporting information. - Print-outs made by Janice Heine of her digital files, including email correspondence and a graphic for the Victoria University of Wellington Arnold Heine Antarctic Research Award. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: The original diaries, related digital files and print-outs were delivered to the Library at the same time. As the digital files were delivered in a digital media carrier without any folder structure, they have been descriptively arranged by the archivist with the analogue materials in a series group to enhance access to the relationship between them. Quantity: 17 volume(s). 6 Electronic document(s). 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Office diaries and notebooks containing handwritten text and some sketches; stapled sets of print-outs and loose sheets

Date: [circa 1950], 1957, 1965

From: Gibbs, Eric Reginald, 1921-2013: Collection relating to Antarctica

Reference: PAColl-10624

Description: Mounted photographic prints relating to Antarctica, circa 1950, 1957, and1965. Mainly taken by Frank O'Leary. Contains an autographed photograph of an unidentified man sitting in a dentist’s chair and holding a penguin, with another man standing alongside holding dentist’s tools, taken at McMurdo Sound on 28 February 1957. An Adelie Penguin is photographed on Beaufort Island and another image shows “Penguin Highway” on Vaughan Island. Also includes two photographs of ice cliffs at Borradaile Island, and a photograph of Cape Royds. One aerial view shows Ridley Beach, Cape Adare, and another Cape Royds with Mount Erebus in the background. Buildings are visible in both aerial images. Also includes photographs of ships. United States Navy icebreaker ‘Glacier’ AGB4 arriving at Winter Quarters Bay, McMurdo Sound. United States Navy Cargo ship ‘Pvt. Joseph F Merrill’ and United States Coastguard icebreaker ‘Eastwind’ W279. A helicopter is also visible in the foreground of the second photograph. A group portrait of over a hundred men seated and wearing tuxedoes at the 21st dinner of the Antarctic Club, Holborn Restaurant, London, circa 1950. Photograph taken by Messrs Rawood Ltd (Baker Street, London). Quantity: 12 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on card. Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints, many mounted on card.

Date: 1965

From: Gibbs, Eric Reginald, 1921-2013: Collection relating to Antarctica

Reference: PAColl-D-1514

Description: Mounted photograph of iceburgs and pack ice near Possession Islands, McMurdo Sound, 1965. Taken by Frank O'Leary. Title transcribed from item. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on board. Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprint, 40 x 50.5 cm (mounted on board 55 x 62 cm)

Date: 1957

From: Falla, Robert Alexander (Sir), 1901-1979 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-2366-299

Date: 1963

From: Mallitte, Howard Leon, 1910-1979 :[Antarctic material relating to 1963 expedition of HMNZS Endeavour to Scott Base and Hallett Station] 1963

Reference: B-117-022

Description: Shows two men engaged in surveying at McMurdo Sound. One is looking through a theodolite, and one is seated at right, writing notes. On recto of B-117-023 Other Titles - 20 November 1963 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ballpoint pen, 240 x 300 mm. Provenance: Donated by NZ Tourist and Publicity Department, 30 March 1976.

Date: 1963

From: Mallitte, Howard Leon, 1910-1979 :[Antarctic material relating to 1963 expedition of HMNZS Endeavour to Scott Base and Hallett Station] 1963

Reference: B-117-006

Description: Shows the radar aerials in the left foreground, and two ships in the channel cut in the sea of ice. There is a mountain range in the background. Other Titles - 15 December 1963 Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas, 380 x 510 mm. Provenance: Donated by NZ Tourist and Publicity Department, 30 March 1976.

Date: 1955-1958

By: Broadhead, Bruce Gilchrist, 1927-2001; Alington, Margaret Hilda, 1920-2012

Reference: PAColl-7907

Description: Photographs of scenes in Fiji, Samoa, Niue, the Cook Islands, Papua New Guinea and Central Australia, taken between 1955-1957 when Bruce Broadhead was employed by the New Zealand Broadcasting Service. Also includes photographs taken at the South Pole when he was the broadcasting representative on the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition over the summer of 1957-1958, and interviewed Edmund Hillary and Vivian Fuchs. The photographs were collected for 'Nothing much to do' and each has a caption. Slides at PAColl-7940. Quantity: 40 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Donated by Margaret Alington, Karori, Wellington, in October 2002. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Papers-7553 : Broadhead, Bruce Gilchrist, 1927-2001 : Nothing much to do..

From: Wilson, Edward Adrian, 1872-1912 :[Antarctic watercolours. 1911] Cambridge, Scott Polar Research Institute, 1974.

Reference: B-071-018

Description: A view in low light across snow, with five sets of skis and ski poles upright in the snow. In the sky is a paraselene, or mock moon, two rings of light with a crescent and lozenge shape of light inside them Another copy of the same image, from an earlier reproduction, held at B-071-002 Other Titles - Paraselene Extended Title - S.P.R.I. Art Series, no 3 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 308 x 236 mm, on sheet 254 x 330 mm

Date: 1955-1958

By: Helm, Arthur Stanley, 1914-1998

Reference: PAColl-4502

Description: Photographs of: V B Gerard, geophysicist; Dr J F Findlay, medical officer with the New Zealand Trans-Atlantic expedition; an artist's impression of Scott Base; map showing the New Zealand party's route from New Harbour to Beehive Mountain; plan of the lay-out of Scott Base by the Ministry of Works; map of Antarctica showing the proposed route of the Trans Antarctic Expedition; sign showing the mileages from Scott Base to the major cities of the world; map of Antarctica showing the number of research stations; topographical map of the area round McMurdo Sound; map of Antarctica showing the different territories; map of the area round the Ross Sea; map showing possible routes from the Upper Ferrar Glacier to the polar plateau; map showing elevations on Scott Island; 12 photographs of huskies with their names; New Zealand's three observers, Gunn, Smith and Hatherton haul their loaded sledges across the sea ice; portrait of Joseph Holmes Miller; portrait of John Richard Claydon. Quantity: 29 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1960s-1970s

From: Alington, Margaret Hilda, 1920-2012 :Photographs

By: United States. Navy

Reference: PAColl-9332

Description: Photographs of McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, taken ca 1964-1973 by a US Navy photographer. Includes views of Operation Deep Freeze, McMurdo Station and aircraft. Quantity: 8 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1951-2008

By: Nolan, Brian, 1935-2011

Reference: MS-Group-2014

Description: Collection comprises scrapbooks, newspaper cuttings, certificates, ephemera and photographs relating to Nolan's career as an Able Seaman in the New Zealand Navy. A large percent of the items detail the 1955-1958 Trans-Antartic Expedition and the New Zealand Ross Sea Support team, led by Sir Edmund Hillary. Also includes some family related material including telegrams and newspaper articles relating to Ann Nolan. Source of title - Supplied by Library Nolan joined the Navy at fifteen years of age. His first placement was aboard the `HMNZS Tamaki'. He served aboard three other vessels before joining the advance party flown to England to serve aboard the `HMNZS Endeavour', supply ship for the Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1956. He later served on the `HMNZS Royalist' in the Pacific in 1961. Quantity: 3 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, ephemera & printed material Provenance: The two scrapbooks in this collection were complied by Mrs Ann Nolan Transfers: Collection taken into the Manuscripts Section as a whole, transfers made from there. - To Photographic Archive - Two colour, fifty-two black & white photographs (PAColl-9943).