It was a round-robin flight from Auckland, providing a scenic view from 2000 feet of
McMurdo Sound, 27 miles west of Mt.
Last December, Bergel completed a 30-day expedition in a near-standard 2.2-litre diesel Santa Fe, driving across Antarctica from Union Camp to
McMurdo Sound and back again, commemorating the centenary of Shackleton's heroic Trans-Antarctic expedition of 1914-16.
For example, skiways for Williams Field (NZWD) at McMurdo Station move about a foot a day as the ice flows toward
McMurdo Sound.
(34) In the event, the Magnetic Pole expedition was delayed by difficult conditions and never returned along the
McMurdo Sound coast, being picked up further to the north.
A container ship follows an ice-breaker into
McMurdo Sound once a year to deliver food.
She then describes the essentials of surviving the main places to visit and explore in Antarctica: the Peninsula,
McMurdo Sound and the South Pole.
The Polar Star left its home port of Seattle in early December to take part in one of its main missions, Operation Deep Freeze, to break a channel through the sea ice of
McMurdo Sound to resupply and refuel the US Antarctic Programme's McMurdo Station on Ross Island.
The wreckage was seen by a United States search aircraft near Mount Erebus, not far from Scott Base in
McMurdo Sound. There was no immediate reports of any survivors.
In
McMurdo Sound in the Ross Sea, there is a third recognized zone between 5 and 33 m, a zone that differs in two important ways.
The bottles of Mackinlay whisky were among three crates that remained of the expedition, and were found in ice under the floorboards of Shackleton's hut at Cape Royds on Ross Island near
McMurdo Sound in 2007.
Decline of the Antarctic Toothfish and its predators in
McMurdo sound and the southern Ross Sea, and recommendations for restoration.