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ANAN 65
Wednesday, 30 January 2002
News in this edition:
65-01. Non-government group returning waste, rubbish from KGI.
65-02. High plateau marathon completed; second run planned for 2003.
65-03. Trekkers reach Pole as season's end nears.
65-04. Meteorite hunt successful, further tourist-based searches likely.
65-05. Expedition groups combine for Peninsula ascent.
65-06. South Georgia museum celebrates tenth anniversary.
65-07. Yacht race fleet again heads for sub-Antarctic waters.
65-08. Barque 'Europa' listed for Peninsula, South Georgia, visits.
65-09. Yachts spend, plan winter sojourns at South Georgia.
65-10. Coming Events Relevant to Non-Government Activities.
NON-GOVERNMENT GROUP RETURNING WASTE, RUBBISH FROM KGI
[ANAN-65/01]
Non-government group 'Mission Antarctica' (MA) and the Russian national program completed operations to remove around 1,000 tonnes of waste from Russia's Bellingshausen station on King George Island (KGI) on 13 January. The month-long operation at KGI, which was funded by a range of corporate sponsors, was completed "well ahead of schedule" according to MA.
Removal of the waste from Bellingshausen is a significant achievement for environmentally focussed MA as it has been working on the project for over six years. During the last few austral summers the group has provided personnel and other resources to undertake such tasks as cutting large metal objects into manageable sizes and transferring waste oil from rusty barrels to new plastic containers, as well as providing opportunities for students, teachers and others to visit the continent (ANAN-38/06, 3 January 2001). The process of obtaining a ship that could transport the waste products from Antarctica also posed serious problems. The vessel eventually obtained was the 'Anne Boye' (ANAN-55/01, 12 September 2001).
Six UK-based staff and personnel from the Russian national program worked for four weeks to transfer the previously prepared materials from the station to the 'Anne Boye' using two tractors, a back-hoe loader and a tele-hoist taken south on the vessel for the project last month.
Strong winds hindered ship-shore operations on a number of occasions, UK shipping publication 'Lloyds' List' confirming an earlier report that 'Anne Boye' grounded in Fildes Bay soon after its arrival. Lloyds says that it was refloated within 24 hours by the Argentinian tug 'Castillo'. The Danish-registered vessel suffered only minor dents to its hull, but no spillage of petroleum products was detected and the incident had no on-going effect on the ship's operation (ANAN-63/03, 2 January 2002).
'Anne Boye', which is believed to be "fully loaded" with materials from KGI, is currently heading north with UK clean-up leader Gerry Brennan on board. Its precise destination, the timing of its arrival there, and just how the waste materials will be processed have, however, not yet been announced. At various times in the past year MA has listed Argentina, Russia, Europe and Uruguay as places where the waste materials might be processed.
According to the group's web site, MA's personnel have had informal discussions "with various bases around KGI" about the possibility of introducing "a single [coordinated] operation" that each year would "supply recycling skips to each [station] for glass, paper, aluminium cans and organic waste", and carry full ones from Antarctica. At the present time, discussions appear to have been limited to personnel at the stations only, with national program authorities reportedly uninvolved at this stage. Such an operation has been discussed in Antarctic circles several times over the past decade.
Meanwhile, MA's yacht '2041' is undertaking the third of four voyages planned for the north-west Peninsula area in 2001-02. Up to eight passengers who are sponsored by businesses or individuals have been carried on the voyages, flying from Punta Arenas, Chile, to KGI to join '2041' and returning by air at the end of their trip.
The start of the third voyage was delayed last week for four days as the aircraft was apparently unable to land at KGI due to bad weather and the presence of other aircraft. During this time some Bellingshausen staff members visited Deception Island on '2041', the yacht picking up supplies left there for it by the US-based Lindblad Expeditions' tour ship 'Endeavour'.
Mission Antarctica's head, Robert Swan, who has been involved in a number of Antarctic non-government ventures in the past, is currently leading the third and fourth voyages of '2041'. He plans to present details of the clean-up project at Bellingshausen as a "global example of practical environmental cooperation" to "world leaders" at the United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development scheduled for Johannesburg, South Africa, in September this year.
Full details of Mission Antarctica's activities, reports from the field, and sponsorship details, can be obtained on line at: http://www.missionantarctica.com/.
Three runners completed tour company Adventure Network International's (ANI) marathon, and two others a half-marathon, on the Antarctic plateau close to the South Geographic Pole (SGP) on 22 January. The event, which was run two weeks later than planned due to a long period of bad weather, was, according to ANI, successful, and another is already being planned for January 2003.
After a 10-day delay at the Patriot Hills due to poor weather (ANAN-64/04, 16 January 2002), the five runners were finally flown to the SGP on 18 January South American Time on ANI's 'Basler 67' aircraft. Six runners originally flew into the Patriot Hills to take part in the race, however, one of the two entrants from Germany had to withdraw before the group flew south to the Pole as the long delay had apparently created conflicts with his work commitments.
Following a brief visit to Amundsen-Scott, the US national program station at the Pole, the five were flown to the starting point, 42 km to the north, where a small tent-based field camp was established. There the participants spent three days acclimatising to the 3,000-m elevation, two of the runners deciding during that time that they would not attempt the full marathon.
The three who ran the full marathon, Richard Donovan from Ireland and Dean Karnazes and Brent Weigner from the US, commenced their run around 0900 Amundsen-Scott time on 22 January. Once under way they stopped every hour for what ANI says was an "energy boost" consisting of soup, a water energy-gel, chocolate bars and nuts.
Donovan was first over the line in 8 hours 52 minutes, followed by Karnazes just under 27 minutes later with Weigner 70 seconds behind him. Donovan and Weigner wore "snow shoes" for the run, while Karnazes elected to use "standard running shoes", a decision that made running particularly hard in soft snow. National standard marathons run at sea-level in 'friendlier' climates are normally won in just over 2 hours.
For Donovan and Weigner, however, completing the marathon was not enough, and they went on to complete what ANI says was an ultra-marathon, running an additional 15-16 km from the Pole out to the South Pole Remote Seismic Observatory to the "east" of the station and back. A 'road' consisting of hard-packed snow has been maintained between the main Amundsen-Scott facility and the Observatory over the last few months and this apparently made running over that extra distance considerably easier.
The half marathon was run from the SGP marker, the two runners heading "west" from there for just over 10 km before returning to finish at the Pole. They were flown from the advance camp to the Pole on the Basler for their race soon after Donovan, Karnazes and Weigner started their run. Ute Gruner from Germany won the event in 5 hours 49 minutes, just over four minutes ahead of Don Kern from the US.
ANI's press release says that the race was "an historic event" for it and that all the runners agreed "that the course was extraordinary challenging". Karnazes was quoted as saying that "this was unequivocally the toughest marathon on earth".
The second high plateau marathon is listed on ANI's web site (http://www.adventure-network.com) as being scheduled for 4 January 2003, the itinerary involved being similar to the one developed for this month's inaugural event (ANAN-63/07, 2 January 2002). The price of participation is unchanged from this year, $US25,000 ex Punta Arenas. In announcing the race nearly a year ago, ANI said that their logistics arrangements were such that up to seventy-five people could have taken part in last week's race (ANAN-44/01, 11 April 2001).
The first of two groups that are conducting major traverses to the South Geographic Pole (SGP) this austral summer reached their goal on 27 January, while the second is poised to arrive there within days. The two parties, who started their journeys late due to early-season weather delays, are completing their treks as summer season operations on the high plateau of Antarctica come to an end (ANAN-60/04, 21 November 2001).
Tour company Adventure Network International's (ANI) three-member commercial 'Ski South Pole' group arrived at the SGP on 27 January after a 58-day trek from Hercules Inlet on the coast of Ellsworth Land (ANAN-63/04, 2 January 2002).
The three, guide Paul Landry from Canada and clients Timo Polari (Finland) and Chris Weyers (Australia) were flown back to the Patriot Hills by an ANI Twin Otter the following day.
'Poles Wearables' pair Thomas and Tina Sjorgen, who are making their second attempt to reach the Pole from Hercules Inlet, were reported to be within 50 km of their objective late on 29 January, Chilean time.
The Sjorgens have been making between 23 and 25 km a day over the last week and are expected to complete the journey before the coming weekend, provided weather allows. The SGP trek is the first of two polar journeys for the husband-and-wife duo. They are scheduled to start an attempt on the North Geographic Pole some time in late March or early April this year (ANAN-35/05, 22 November 2000).
US adventurer Doug Stoup, who coordinated ANI's high plateau marathon operation, was unable to attempt his solo bike ride to the Pole from the Patriot Hills. He had also intended to undertake the ride last season. (ANAN-40/09, 31 January 2001). Delays in the running of the marathon meant that there was insufficient time for him to make the attempt prior to season's end (see ANAN-65/02 preceding), however, he stated on his web site that he hoped to "ride the bike around the Patriot Hills". It is not known at this stage if he has undertaken the ride.
Seven people took part in the 111-km, 'Last Degree' commercial traverse to the SGP from latitude 89 degrees south in late December (ANAN-63/04, 2 January 2002). Together with the five who made the much longer, more arduous journeys from the coast this austral summer, this brings the total of south pole walkers for the 2001-02 season to twelve. 2001-02 is the quietest summer for long-distance traverses to the Pole since 1993-94. The events of 11 September are thought to have impacted severely on tourist expedition activity this season. Last season, 23 people took part in six long-distance traverses that reached the Pole from coastal areas, eight took part in a 'Last Degree' trip, while two other treks, including the Sjorgens' first attempt, failed to reach the Pole as planned (ANAN-40/08, 31 January 2001).
ANI is currently winding up operations on the continent for the summer with its last flights north expected in the next few weeks, including one that will pick-up the Wearables pair from the Pole.
It has been a difficult season for the company with weather causing long delays for inter- and intra-continental flight operations at critical times over the last three months. Although five tourists visited the Pole on 27 January, a report on the 'meteorite' tour group's web site (see ANAN-65/04 following) says that almost thirty others had to abandon their visits earlier this month due to weather delays at the Patriot Hills.
The US national program has experienced similar delays to flights between McMurdo and the Amundsen-Scott station at the SGP this season.
Thirty-three meteorites, some of them described as "rare", were collected along the Pecora Escarpment in Ellsworth Land earlier this month by a commercially sponsored tour group during an operation that also included a visit to the South Geographic Pole (SGP). Organisers say that, given the success of the program, similar tour-based searches are likely to occur in the future, although it is too early yet to determine just when the next venture will be conducted.
The meteorite hunt was based around a tour operation organised by United States company Space Adventures, not the Planetary Studies Foundation (PSF) as reported previously by ANAN (ANAN-63/02, 2 January 2002). PSF has organised several previous hunts for meteorites in the Ellsworth Land region, raising monies for those operations from corporate sponsors, but this was the first time Space Adventures has been directly involved. The company, which specialises in a range of space-related activities, has links to tour operator Adventure Network International (ANI), as its President, Mike McDowell, is also involved in the space venture.
PSF's Professor Paul Sipiera led the ten-person party. The other party members were, according to a Space Adventures (SA) spokeswomen Tereza Predescu, "neither scientists, nor members of the PSF [but] private individuals who paid $US44,000 each to embark on this discovery voyage". Sipiera, a planetary geologist and meteorite expert, is President of the PSF and several of the other participants are on its Board.
Pecora Escarpment lies just over 400 km north of the SGP and 200 km south-east of the Moulton Escarpment where PSF collected 19 meteorites two years ago (ANAN-18/04, 29 March 2000). Those samples were handled and stored according to agreed scientific protocols and made available to researchers at universities in Austria, Germany and the US. The Foundation says that it plans to handle its latest finds in the same manner. The Pecora area is known to be prolific in meteorites. A US national program team found numerous samples there ten years ago.
SA's meteorite group flew into the Patriot Hills, Ellsworth Land, from Punta Arenas, Chile, on 8 January on ANI's Ilyushin-76. Poor weather at the Patriot Hills had forced them to wait in Punta Arenas for almost a week. After arrival on the ice, poor weather again intervened, delaying for a further eight days their visit to the SGP and deployment to the Pecora Escarpment.
The party finally reached the Pole from the Patriot Hills on ANI's chartered 'Basler 67' aircraft on 16 January after a four-hour flight. Following a brief visit there, they were flown north-east to the Escarpment where they set up a tent-based field camp, a planned two-hour visit to the La Paz ice field en route to search for meteorites was abandoned due to the presence of crevasses and deteriorating weather.
Over the next eight days, two motor toboggans and their sledges were used to transport search groups to blue-ice areas along the Escarpment to hunt for meteorites, although several days were lost due to bad weather and problems with the motor toboggans. After weather delays the group was finally flown back to the Patriot Hills and on to Punta Arenas by ANI late last week.
Although meteorites fall all over the earth, the Antarctic ice sheet offers the best location on the planet for their preservation and recovery. Researchers from the national programs of France, Japan, Russia and the US, have collected in excess of 16,000 samples from a range of locations in Antarctica. Large numbers of research papers have been written about the composition and origin of these space objects, and there has been considerable scientific controversy as to whether or not one collected from the Allan Hills in Victoria Land contained evidence of primitive life on the planet Mars.
Images of the Pecora Escarpment field camp and details of the meteorite group's activities are available on line at http://www.spaceadventures.com/terrestrial/antarctica/journal.html.
Climbers from the yachts 'John Laing' and 'Gambo' combined in a successful joint attempt on 890-m Mount Hoegh at the northern end of Paradise Bay on 21 January. The ascent came at the end of a hectic month for the UK expeditioners on board 'John Laing', a time during which they completed activities on the plateau of the Antarctic Peninsula, visited Brabant Island and climbed a number of peaks on Wienke Island and in the area around Paradise Bay.
After reaching Mount Johnston on Forbidden Plateau late in December (ANAN-63/09, 2 January 2002), the nine-member climbing group from 'John Laing' was unable to travel further south along the plateau because of poor weather and limited supplies.
As a result, they descended from there on 2 January, white-out forcing them to travel using Global Positioning System reference points they had established on the way up. Shortly after reaching the top of Bayly Glacier, at an elevation close to 1,000 m, they broke into clear air and continued rapidly downwards on skis. They reached their depot adjacent to Mount Harris above Charlotte Bay in 12 hours. It had taken them a week to climb up the same route.
Following the climber's return, 'John Laing' made a number of shore visits along the coast of Brabant Island. Whilst there, one of the crew, a journalist, transferred to the tour ship 'Endeavour' and returned to Ushuaia, Argentina, as he had other work commitments.
The yacht then headed for Port Lockroy, arriving on 10 January. Once there, four of the group ascended 545-m Jabet Peak on Wienke Island, while six others reached the summit of 2,600-m Mount Luigi at the northern end of the Fief Range on the same island. The Luigi climbers, who ascended via the east ridge during a 14-hour overnight climb on 9-10 January, were apparently the second party to climb the mountain this austral summer, the first apparently being from the 'Gambo' a few days previously.
One of the Jabet Peak climbers suffered a broken bone in her hand as a result of a minor fall, and while not serious, it was decided that as a precaution the hand should be x-rayed. A number of tourist ships operating in the area were contacted by radio but reports from 'John Laing' say that "none had functioning x-ray machines", so the US national program station Palmer, 25 km away, was contacted and quickly agreed to provide assistance.
After an unsuccessful attempt to transit the Lemaire Channel, 'John Laing' headed back to Port Lockroy then on to Paradise Bay where, on 19 January, eight climbers reached the top of the conspicuous red rock, Mount Banke, a 675-m peak just south of Argentina's Admiralte Brown station.
Their next target was Mount Hoegh at the northern end of the Bay, but their first attempt was thwarted by bad weather, then shortly after 'Gambo' arrived at the anchorage and it was agreed that a joint attempt on the peak should be made. This was done on the 21st, the ascent being undertaken from Waterboat Point, six people from 'John Laing' and three from 'Gambo' making up the party.
'John Laing' left Paradise Harbour for Charcot Bay to collect geological samples, but not before it and 'Gambo' were joined by another yacht, the 'Ada', which had left Ushuaia, Argentina, a week earlier. The 'Ada' crew included French solo racer Isabelle Autissier and a number of other well-known international yachtswomen. Another French yacht, the 'Hinayana', is also operating in the region, however, few details are available about it.
Little information is available about the Gambo's current activities. The15-m ketch is believed to have left Ushuaia late last month with seven on board, having arrived there from New Zealand in mid-December after a six-week voyage with a crew of three (ANAN-58/10, 7 November 2001). The craft is being used to support the Antarctic Convergence Zone Project (ACZP), a non-government research program that involves research and adventure visits to glaciers, ice-caps and glacierised islands in the Antarctic Peninsula and Antarctic Convergence Zone regions (ANAN-48/03, 6 June 2001).
'John Laing' is currently headed for Elephant Island where geological, heritage and climbing activities are planned prior to its return to Stanley in the Falkland Islands sometime in the first half of February. Full details of the expedition's activities are available on line at: http://www.baae.org.uk/.
The tenth anniversary of the opening of the South Georgia Museum was marked on 22 January with a gathering at Grytviken of all eleven of the island's mainland residents and some shorter-term visitors. The museum, which is housed in the former whaling station manager's house at Grytviken, has been visited by over 15,000 people from tourist ships, yachts and other vessels over the past decade.
When it opened in 1992 following the partial restoration of the manager's house, the museum occupied two rooms and featured whaling artefacts and photographs. Ten years on, exhibits take up six rooms and feature the island's discovery, exploration and natural history, as well as sealing and whaling activities, surveying and mountaineering expeditions, and Sir Ernest Shackleton's exploits. There is also a public reference area where books, video and natural history films are archived.
Displays are currently being prepared on the administrative history of the island and the events of the last twenty years, while another planned exhibit is to feature a working steam pump and items from the blacksmith's workshop and foundry at the whaling station.
In addition to work on the museum itself, the last decade has seen the restoration of the Grytviken church, construction of a new fence around the whalers' cemetery where Shackleton is buried, clearance of debris from the former whaling station from the area adjacent to the museum, and the restoration of a nearby cottage where current curators, Tim and Pauline Carr, live. At the present time the upper floor of the museum building is being fitted out with workshops, archives and other storage areas.
For many years the museum had no plumbing or heating and electricity was only available irregularly from a "small and ancient" portable generator. Power is now supplied around-the-clock from the new British Antarctic Survey base at King Edward Point via a recently installed 1,100-m cable (ANAN-43/04, 28 February 2001).
The museum was conceived and established by the late Nigel Bonner who had been a sealing inspector during the 1950s and later became Head of Life Sciences and Deputy Director at the British Antarctic Survey. It is operated by the South Georgia Museum Trust, funds for its operation being provided mainly by the South Georgia Government and from gift shop profits. Donations from tourists and others who visit the island have supported a number of projects. Volunteers have assisted with restoration and other work on site over the last ten years (see ANAN-65/09 following).
The fourth leg of the 'Volvo Ocean Race' got underway from Auckland, New Zealand, on 27 January, and the eight yachts involved will enter sub-Antarctic waters for the second time in the next few days as they head for Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, via Cape Horn. The 20-m yachts involved are 'illbruck', 'Amer Sports one', 'News Corp', 'Assa Abloy', 'Tyco', 'SEB', 'djuice' and 'Amer Sports Too'.
If followed, the Great Circle, or shortest passage to the Horn would take the fleet as far south as latitude 64 degrees south to a point that is around 900 km north of the Marie Byrd Land Coast. Lisa McDonald, skipper of the all-female 'Amer Sports Too', described the Auckland-Rio leg of the around-the-world-race as going "from the tropics to icebergs and into [the] tropics again". Weather systems in the region though could result in the actual route taken being up to 10 degrees further north as the tacticians on each yacht attempt to find the fastest sailing conditions for the passage eastwards.
The yachts are scheduled to complete the 10,700-km leg to Rio by around 19 February, and could pass Cape Horn some time during the second week of February. Seven of the eight yachts first crossed sub-Antarctic waters during the race last November while en route from Cape Town, South Africa, to Sydney, Australia (ANAN-61/05, 5 December 2001).
Race details, including six-hourly updates of yacht positions, are available at: http://www.volvooceanrace.com/.
The three-masted square-rigged barque 'Europa', which conducted four tourist voyages to the Antarctic Peninsula in 2000-01, is to visit both South Georgia and the Peninsula region during three voyages planned for the 2002-03 austral summer.
'Europa' is expected to arrive at Stanley in the Falklands in mid-December after a ten-week non-stop voyage from San Diego in the US via Cape Horn. From there she is scheduled to conduct a month-long voyage to South Georgia and return, before sailing for Ushuaia, Argentina. In late January 2003 the barque will commence the first of two 21-day trips from Ushuaia to north-western parts of the Antarctic Peninsula (ANAN-30/01, 30 August 2000). 'Europa' is to leave Ushuaia for her home port of Amsterdam in the Netherlands early in March 2003.
The vessel, which has a steel hull and is 56 m long, carries 27 sails with a total area of 1,250 square metres. She has two-, four- and six-berth cabins and can carry up to 52 passengers and a crew of 10-12. A total of 115 passengers is reported to have been carried on the four voyages she made to the Peninsula region early last year.
Prices for the 2002-03 season have not been released, and the precise dates for each voyage have not yet been set. Details of the vessel and its broad schedule are available on line at: http://www.barkeuropa.com/.
YACHTS SPEND, PLAN WINTER SOJOURNS AT SOUTH GEORGIA
[ANAN-65/09]
Year-round stays by yachts at South Georgia continued in 2001 and another similar sojourn is planned in 2002, both operations supporting aspects of management activities on the island.
Mark and Fraser Carpenter, whose home is in Canada, arrived at South Georgia last November on their yacht 'Joshua' after spending the year 2000 austral winter in the Falkland Islands.
They first visited South Georgia twelve months ago, at that time being involved in fieldwork being conducted by the Falkland Islands government on rounding up reindeer, and later in supporting aspects of the South Georgia rat eradication project. The Carpenters plan to spend the 2002 winter at South Georgia and are expected to undertake further eradication-related work.
Harald and Hedel Voss from Germany, who first visited South Georgia during the austral summers of 1993-94 and 1997-98 and wintered over in 1999, spent a second winter at the island in 2001 on the 'Moritz D' before leaving the island two months ago.
In 1999 they refurbished the so-called 'Drukken Villa' at Grytviken, where the captains of whale catchers stayed when ashore. The Voss's set up the 'Villa' as accommodation for people who visit the island to undertake short-term projects at the South Georgia Museum (see ANAN-65/06 preceding). Last year they undertook further museum-related work, including putting a door and steps on the front porch so that the side door, which tends to get buried as snow slides off the roof, will not need constant digging out during the winter and early spring.
Both the 'Moritz D' and 'Joshua' cruised extensively around the island during the last winter and witnessed the late-winter pupping of what is the northern-most known breeding colony of Weddell seals, in Larsen Harbour in the south-west of the island.
ANAN is not currently aware of any yachts having wintered in Antarctica in 2001 or of any plans to do so in 2002.
COMING EVENTS RELEVANT TO NON-GOVERNMENT ACTIVITIES
[ANAN-65/10]
Please forward notice of events via e-mail to: tourism@aad.gov.au. Up-dates are made to ANAN's web site at
http://www.antdiv.gov.au/goingsouth/tourism/Research/BibConf/Confer/default.asp as soon as new information comes to hand.
YEAR 2002
2 March (King George Island, Antarctica)
Fifth Antarctic Marathon and Half Marathon (ANAN-53/04, 15 August 2001).
Contact: marathon@shore.net (Thom Gilligan).
1-5 July (Cambridge, U.K.)
IAATO year 2002 annual meeting.
Contact: iaato@iaato.org (Denise Landau)(invitation required).
15-19 July (Shanghai, China)
COMNAP XIV (including the sub-committee on Tourism and Non-Government Operations).
Contact: jsayers@comnap.aq (Jack Sayers).
15-26 July (Shanghai, China).
XXVII SCAR (Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research).
3-14 September (Warsaw, Poland)
Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting XXV
YEAR 2003
4-11 January (South Geographic Pole)
High Plateau Marathon (ANAN-65/02 preceding).
Contact: general@adventure-network.com
July [Dates to be set] (Seattle, United States).
IAATO year 2003 annual meeting.
Contact: iaato@iaato.org (Denise Landau)(invitation required).
24 November (Queen Mary and Dronning Maud Land regions).
Total solar eclipse (See ANAN-61/09, 5 December 2001).
Next edition issued on Wednesday, 13 February 2002 @ 0600 UTC.
Deadline for items: Sunday, 10 February 2002 @ 2359 UTC.
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