Italians pick base at Ice
Italy’s first Antarctic base might be set up in northern Terra Nova Bay, about 400 km from Scott Base. The director of the D.S.I.R.’s Antarctic Division, Mr Bob Thomson, has returned from a successful trip south to help a team of 21 Italians select a base site.
He recommended the Terra Nova Bay site to his Italian counterpart, Mr C. Valone, who was in Christchurch yesterday to prepare for a trip to the Antarctic.
Mr Thomson said last evening that the site was “absolutely ideal” for a base. It had excellent potential for a wide range of research, and was close enough to Scott Base to allow close co-operation between New Zealand and Italian scientists.
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Press, 20 January 1986, Page 8
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