Timeline of New Zealand's links with Antarctica
A map of the
Ross Dependency, the part of Antarctica claimed by New Zealand.
This is a timeline of the history of New Zealand's involvement with Antarctica.
Eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
- 1838–1840
- 1895
- 1899
- February British expedition led by Carstens Borchgrevink, including several New Zealanders, establishes first base in Antarctica, at Cape Adare. This expedition becomes the first to winter over on the continent.[2]
1900s
- 1902
- Scott Island (formerly Markham Island) was discovered and landed upon by Captain William Colbeck.
1910s
- 1910
- 1911–1914
- Four New Zealanders (H Hamilton, AJ Sawyer, EN Webb, and LA Webber) are members of Douglas Mawson's Australian Antarctic expedition.[3]
1920s
- 1923
- 1928
- US Navy Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd leaves Dunedin for the first sea-air exploration expedition to the Antarctic. Byrd overflew the South Pole with pilot Bernt Balchen on 28 and 29 November 1929, to match his overflight of the North Pole in 1926.
- 1929
- Combined UK-Australia-NZ expedition led by Douglas Mawson; New Zealand members include RA Falla and RG Simmers.[4]
1930s
- 1933
- New Zealand Antarctic Society founded.
1940s
- 1946
- 1949
- First publication of New Zealand Antarctic Society quarterly journal, Antarctic[4]
1950s
- 1955
- 1956
- 1957
- 1958
- 1959
1960s
- 1964
- Hallett Station destroyed by fire. It is not rebuilt[6] but is used as a summer-only base until 1973.
- 1965
- The first flight from New Zealand to Antarctica made by a Royal New Zealand Air Force C130 (Hercules) aircraft
- 1968
- Marie Derby becomes first New Zealand woman to work in the Antarctic
- 1969
1970s
- 1970
- Antarctic Amendment Act comes into force.
- 1972–1974
- First solo voyage to Antarctica, by New Zealand-born yachtsman and author David Lewis[7]
- 1974
- 1975
- Prime Minister Bill Rowling had a formal proposal made at the Oslo Meeting for Antarctic to be declared a World Park.
- 1976
- Thelma Rogers, of New Zealand's DSIR, becomes the first woman to winter over on Antarctica.[7]
- 1977
- New Zealand proclaims Exclusive Economic Zone of 200 nautical miles (370 km), which provides for the zone to also include Ross Dependency's waters.[7]
- 1978
- 21st Anniversary of Scott Base
- 1979
- The Mount Erebus disaster: an Air New Zealand DC-10 crashes and 257 people die.
1980s
- 1980
- New Zealand is signatory to the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources, which comes into effect in 1982.[7]
- 1982
- 1987
- Closure of Scott Base Post Office (reopened in 1994)
1990s
- 1995
- 1996
2000s
- 2006
- October (to January 2007): New Zealanders Kevin Biggar and Jamie Fitzgerald become the first people to walk to the South Pole without the aid of any supply dumps.[8] Their plan to parasail back is abandoned.[9]
- 2007
References
- ↑ Fraser, B. (ed.) (1986) The New Zealand book of events. Auckland: Reed Methuen. ISBN 0-474-00123-7.
p 72.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Fraser, B. (ed.) (1986) The New Zealand book of events. Auckland: Reed Methuen. ISBN 0-474-00123-7.
p 73.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Fraser, B. (ed.) (1986) The New Zealand book of events. Auckland: Reed Methuen. ISBN 0-474-00123-7.
p 74.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Fraser, B. (ed.) (1986) The New Zealand book of events. Auckland: Reed Methuen. ISBN 0-474-00123-7.
p 75.
- ↑ Fraser, B. (ed.) (1986) The New Zealand book of events. Auckland: Reed Methuen. ISBN 0-474-00123-7.
pp 75–76.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Fraser, B. (ed.) (1986) The New Zealand book of events. Auckland: Reed Methuen. ISBN 0-474-00123-7.
p 76.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 Fraser, B. (ed.) (1986) The New Zealand book of events. Auckland: Reed Methuen. ISBN 0-474-00123-7.
p 77.
- ↑ McNaughton, Maggie (12 September 2006). "Out of the freezer and to the South Pole". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 22 November 2011.
- ↑ "NZ Herald: New Zealand's Latest News, Business, Sport, Weather, Travel, Technology, Entertainment, Politics, Finance, Health, Environment and Science". The New Zealand Herald.
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