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Sound extract from the Erebus memorial service at Scott Base on 2 December 1979

Scott Base on Antarcticain 2006

For over 50 years New Zealand has cared for huts left behind by the first explorers of the Ross Sea region of Antarctica.

Flag-raising ceremony at the opening of Scott Base on 20 January 1957.

The base was originally established to support the privately run Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (TAE). It accommodated the NZ party of the TAE and a party of NZ scientists attached to the expedition who also contributed to the International Geophysical Year