ANTARCTIC BASE
Summer Party j Leaves ! ( • t Special Crspdt. NZP A > ( SCOTT BASE, February 26.1* The last flights of the season left Williams Field in * (McMurdo Sound this morning ! ; for Christchurch, isolating 1 , the men who will spend the 1 | eight-month winter in Ant- . I arctica. c I One aircraft left about >' 7.45 a.m. and the last plane.lt .'the command aircraft of the It I United States Navy’s VX6> Squadron, left at 8 a.m., mak l< ing a very low pass over ' t I Scott Base and McMurdo't Station. i At Scott Base, the 11 men it who will stay for the winter-i —eight New Zealanders and If I three Englishmen—had been [ s ; alone since the last of the If I summer support party left on I i I Sunday mornin j. 1 i
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32233, 27 February 1970, Page 22
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