Overflights predicted
PA Dunedin Tourist overflights to Antarctica were likely to start again before very long, the director of the Antarctic Division of the D.5.1.R., Mr R. B. Thomson, has predicted in Dunedin. “Tourism will probably be one of the Antarctic’s major industries some time in the future,” he said in a University of Otago open lecture. Mr Thomson has been director of the Antarctic Division since 1965 and represents the New Zealand Government at meetings concerned with the Antarctic.
“Overflights should, if all precautions are taken, prove to be the safest, most convenient, and enjoyable way for thousands of people to view Antarctica for several years to come,” Mr Thomson said. Qantas and Air New Zealand began sightseeing trips in 1977 but they ended with the tragic Air New Zealand Mount Erebus crash in November, 1979. Mr Thomson said it would be a brave airline to start up overflights again and he thought such moves would be more likely from South America than Australia or New Zealand.
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