U.S. SHIPS AT HALLETT

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28794, 15 January 1959, Page 12

U.S. SHIPS AT HALLETT

Stores Unloaded For Station

A cargo ship and two icebreakers—the Arneb, and the North wind and Staten Islandhave begun discharging supplies and equipment to maintain the joint United States-New Zealand base at Cape Hallett in Antarctica for the coming year. The base will be occupied by 16 men. An American news release in Christchurch yesterday said that the ships had been forced to navigate through the icepack off Moubray Bay, the area where the Arneb was holed two years ago. A navy correspondent with the task unit says that an unusual feature of the present unloading operations at Cape Hallett has been the employment of an icebreaker in keeping a channel open between the Arneb and the beach for light cargo landing craft. “It is a strange sight indeed to see an icebreaker followed by two or three landing craft winding their way to and fro through a tortuous ice channel carved out of floes and growlers.” the correspondent says. The correspondent adds that the executive officer of the Staten Island describes Moubray Bay as “the most beautiful harbour in the world if it were only located someplace else.”