Jump to content

Timeline of New Zealand's links with Antarctica

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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.

Pre 1900s

[edit]
1838–1840
1895
1899
  • February British expedition led by Carsten 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

[edit]
1902

1910s

[edit]
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

[edit]
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.[clarification needed]
1929
  • Combined UK-Australia-NZ expedition led by Douglas Mawson; New Zealand members include RA Falla and RG Simmers.[4]

1930s

[edit]
1933

1940s

[edit]
1946
1949

1950s

[edit]
1955
1956
1957
1958
1959

1960s

[edit]
1964
1965
  • The first flight from New Zealand to Antarctica made by a Royal New Zealand Air Force C130 (Hercules) aircraft[citation needed]
1968
1969

1970s

[edit]
1970
1972–1974
  • First solo voyage to Antarctica, by New Zealand-born yachtsman and author David Lewis[9]
1974
1975
1976
  • Thelma Rodgers, of New Zealand's DSIR, becomes the first woman to winter over on Antarctica.[9]
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.[9]
1978
1979

1980s

[edit]
1980
1982
1987

1990s

[edit]
1995
1996

2000s

[edit]
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.[10] Their plan to parasail back is abandoned.[11]
2007

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Fraser, B. (ed.) (1986) The New Zealand book of events. Auckland: Reed Methuen. ISBN 0-474-00123-7. p. 72.
  2. ^ a b Fraser, B. (ed.) (1986) The New Zealand book of events. Auckland: Reed Methuen. ISBN 0-474-00123-7. p. 73.
  3. ^ a b Fraser, B. (ed.) (1986) The New Zealand book of events. Auckland: Reed Methuen. ISBN 0-474-00123-7. p. 74.
  4. ^ a b c Fraser, B. (ed.) (1986) The New Zealand book of events. Auckland: Reed Methuen. ISBN 0-474-00123-7. p. 75.
  5. ^ Fraser, B. (ed.) (1986) The New Zealand book of events. Auckland: Reed Methuen. ISBN 0-474-00123-7. pp. 75–76.
  6. ^ a b c d e Fraser, B. (ed.) (1986) The New Zealand book of events. Auckland: Reed Methuen. ISBN 0-474-00123-7. p. 76.
  7. ^ Sinclair, Keith (1976). Walter Nash. Auckland University Press. p. 363.
  8. ^ "Women in Antarctica | NZHistory, New Zealand history online". nzhistory.govt.nz. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
  9. ^ a b c d e f g Fraser, B. (ed.) (1986) The New Zealand book of events. Auckland: Reed Methuen. ISBN 0-474-00123-7. p. 77.
  10. ^ McNaughton, Maggie (12 September 2006). "Out of the freezer and to the South Pole". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 22 November 2011.
  11. ^ "NZ Herald: New Zealand's Latest News, Business, Sport, Weather, Travel, Technology, Entertainment, Politics, Finance, Health, Environment and Science". The New Zealand Herald.
[edit]