Ross Is. Volcano Active
SCOTT BASE, February 25. The cloud has cleared over Ross Island today for the first time in more than two weeks to reveal a thick white plume of steam or smoke over Mount Terror (10,700 feet) previously considered an extinct volcano. Mount Terror, 40 miles from Scott Base, is the twin peak to the well-known Antarctic volcano Mount Erebus (12,400 feet). Only six weeks ago a New Zealand Antarctic Research programme geological party discovered volcanic activity on Mount Melbourne, 250 miles north of Scott Base on the Victoria Land coast. Mount Terror may now be
the third known active volcano in the Antarctic. The Scott Base leader, Colin Clark, is immediately organising an expedition to investigate Mount Terror to find what form the activity is taking. The two-man party, Warwick Orchiston, of Gisborne, and Robin Kidd, of Palmerston North, will travel by motor toboggan and sledge. The trip may take about
five days and the men can expect it to be very cold at this stage of the Antarctic summer.
The sudden sighting of steam over Mount Terror coincided with the departure today of the last two United States Navy Hercules aircraft, thus ending the 1966-67 summer season and leaving only the wintering staff at Scott Base and McMurdo station.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31306, 28 February 1967, Page 8
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