SCIENTISTS’ BASE AT CAPE HALLETT
SITE CHANGED BECAUSE OF PENGUIN COLONY
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 8 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 16. The United States Navy announced today that it would shift the site of its International Geophysical Year station in the Antarctic partly because a teeming colony of penguins makes aeroplane landing hazardous. The base for United States and New Zealand scientists will be set up at Cape Hallett rather than at Cape Adare. The Navy said that Rear-Admiral George Dufek, commander of the Navy task force there, had reported that Cape Hallett was also more accessible by ship and possessed a larger area for conversion into a landing strip for ski-aeroplanes.
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28154, 18 December 1956, Page 16
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