VETERAN SCIENTIST GOING TO ANTARCTIC

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30895, 30 October 1965, Page 14

VETERAN SCIENTIST GOING TO ANTARCTIC

The British Antarctic veteran, Sir Charles Wright, arrived in Christchurch this week on his way to the Antarctic. It will be his fourth visit to the continent.

Sir Charles Wright will spend about four weeks at Byrd Station to set up some new equipment for measuring the effects of the solar wind on the earth’s magnetic field On his return home to Canada another set of equipment will be installed at a scientific station on the Great Whale river on the eastern shore of Hudson Bay. He said that experiments in this particular field had been going on since 1960 in collaboration with Stanford University in California. One of the most interesting effects had been the strong evidence of the same results being achieved in both auroral zones.

Much of the work was related to the observation and warnings of the special storms that came almost daily in the auroral zones.

“With the two observation points scientists will have a pretty continuous record each year,” he said.

Six’ Charles Wright, now aged 77, is one of the three surviving scientists who took part in Captain Scott’s last expedition in 1910. He leaves for the Antarctic tomorrow.