Antarctic Man’s World

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30044, 31 January 1963, Page 2

Antarctic Man’s World

GTX Press AssoctatiM) WWIJN 30 Scott Base. New . Zealand's Antarctic headquarters, is no land for women—and wiU not be for at least 10 years. Reasons for this were given today by two men prominent in different fields of Antarctic work. Mr G. W. Markham, superintendent of the Antarctic Division, Department of Scientific and fodusMal Baoearah, said Scott Bese had a one-sex enwoSS'rnguinamofal mcmbh modatton mml Mnvwtatoiß

ftitaWßflMnt of Scott Bate ww DO* CfWl—gfCL WMD one or two women living among 50 men -■ “wriC juetthtok of the oai probiwn," be said. (America's Mcfiiurdo Sound base is staffed by about 1000 men.)

Women could not go on field trips, so bow would they be employed? If employed at tbe base they would need an adjutant.

Mr Markham said three women had made work application, tootodfog two staters from Otago, who said they would go as cooks for the price of one. Mr J. MUlen, aged 25, a civil snginttr who led tbe Federated Mountain Clubs’ recent seven-weak field trip, considers tbe meta problem with women would be social.

He said that on his expeditton two-man teams pulled a sledge carrying between

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