New Zealand and the Antarctic

NEW ZEALAND AND THE ANTARCTIC is the work of L.B. Quartermain, M.B.E., M.A., already well-known for his broadcasts and articles on the Antarctic.

The author's interest in the Antarctic dates from his boyhood. He saw Shackleton's NIMROD return to Lyttleton in 1908 and witnessed the departure of Scott's last expedition in 1910. A foundation member of the New Zealand Antarctic Society, he served as president for 3 years. He was instrumental in founding the journal ANTARCTIC and was its editor from 1956 to 1968. Mr Quartermain has visited Antarctica on three occasions, in 1957 as a member of U.S. Operation Deep-Freeze II, in 1960-61 as leader of the Huts Restoration team which restored the huts of Shackleton at Cape Royds and of Scott at Cape Evans, and in 1968, as a guest of the Antarctic Division, visiting the South Pole Station and the Wright and Victoria Dry Valleys.

- from the back cover.

New Zealand and the Antarctic
L.B. Quartermain
A.R. Shearer, Government Printer
Wellington
1971
First edition.
Hardback.
Dark green cloth boards with titles in silver on the front and the spine.
269 pages plus supplimentary topographical map (NZMS 135 Ross Sea Regions, 2nd edition. Scale 1:3,000,000
Good second-hand condition.
Binding tight.
Pages largely clean.

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