SCOTT BASE BLIZZARD
Mid-Winter Festivities (N.Z. Press Association) SCOTT BASE, June 22. A short blizzard with winds up to 80 miles an hour struck Scott Base this morning but it did not prevent the win-tering-over party from enjoying the traditional midwinter day festivities. The radio operator. W. Deverall. experienced auroral flutter as bad as any experienced this year as messages of goodwill from farmer Antarctic men poured in from Awarua station in New Zealand. At 2 p.m. the party at Scott Base entertained a group of Naval officers and scientists from the neighbouring United States base at McMurdo to dinner at which toasts were drunk to the Queen, President Kennedy and Polar endeavour. Nor were tihe huskies forgotten during the day which was crispened by 80 degrees of frost. Usually every other day they are fed with frozen blocks of New Zealand mutton splintered with an axe to make them more chewable. Today, W. Herbert, an English veteran of two previous Antarctic winters, fed the dogs a special meal of more palatable thawed-out seat meat.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29548, 24 June 1961, Page 13
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