International Geophysical Year, 1957-1958

Date: [1869-1958]

By: Helm, Arthur Stanley, 1914-1998

Reference: 73-132

Description: Comprises applications for membership; minutes; messages from observers; medical and base medical lists, Falkland Islands Dependency; annual and general reports and financial statements; correspondence, miscellaneous files, press statements; printed matter; personnel, transport and equipment files; teleprinted messages and telegrams; and other papers Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - See also references on TAPUHI to Trans-Antarctic Association and Expedition Quantity: 11 box(es). 3.20 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Finding Aids: List of files available in Box 1.

Date: [1974-1976]

From: Lennox-King, James, fl 2001 : Reminiscences

Reference: MS-Papers-7191

Description: Reminiscences of Commander Lennox-King of his time in Antarctica from 1956 to 1961; he describes the background to Antarctic exploration, his entry to Antarctic administration between the early IGY research period between 1951 and 1957 and later Scott Base research period from the mid-1960s. His reminiscences are divided into three parts, part one covering his first taste of Antarctica, the beginning of his time there as liaison officer to the seaborne element of the the United States' operation, Deep Freeze, experiences at the base and on the ice, the importance of transport connections, the wild life, travels to other parts of the continent and his return home. Part two covers his time as New Zealand commander of Scott Base in a time he calls the `Age of heroes', between the early days of Antarctic exploration and the matter-of-fact routine of today. Part three covers another appointment and Lennox-King describes relationships with the American base and the Russians in Antarctica. His term ended but he went on two voyages on the `Endeavour', the Antarctic resupply ship, sailing to the United States where the Namakargon was converted to become another `Endeavour' and then to the Antarctic and the sub-Antarctic islands. Relationship complexity - See also MS-Papers-7142 and 91-018 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (38 pages).

Date: 1957

From: Mayne, William Thomas, 1910-1988 :490 original cartoons published in the Christchurch Star Sun and the Christchurch Star Sun Sports between 1954 and 1962.

Reference: A-386-150

Description: Shows five frames containing illustrations about the world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik I, which was launched on 4 October 1957. The first frame, 'To-day's best dressed people', shows a woman wearing a novelty hat complete with an orbiting satellite. In the next frame, a girl sings 'Twinkle, twinkle little star, I don't wonder what you are. Up above this earth so high, you're a Soviet-satellite-rocket-casing in the sky.' In the third frame, seven people are staring up at the night sky. The fourth frame shows a politician in the Antarctic and contains the following text: 'Now with a cabinet minister visiting the Antarctic... we are left wondering what next we'll see during international 'gee-whizzical' year.' The final frame contains text only. It says, 'See you Saturday night, Satellite - gotta rocket round the earth to-night.' Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon on card, 260 x 283 mm

Date: 1957-1958

By: Ayres, Harry Herbert, 1912-1987; Claydon, John Richard, 1917-2014

Reference: PAColl-6803

Description: Photographs of the Russian Antarctic Base on Haswell Island, taken 1950s by Harry Ayres. Quantity: 19 b&w original photographic print(s).

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).