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Antarctica on the Eve of the Treaty

Summary

In November 1959, just weeks before the signing of the Antarctic Treaty, I had the enormous privilege of visiting the Antarctic as guest of the United States Navy, in the capacity of a photojournalist. I had the opportunity to hike on Ross Island, visit Cape Evans and Cape Royds by helicopter, tour the greater Ross Island neighborhood in an old R4D, and fly to the Pole in a Globemaster on a cargo drop.The vastness and beauty of the continent were beyond anything I had imagined. The realization that the ice at the Pole is 1 1/2 miles thick overwhelmed me. I wrote an illustrated article entitled "Around the World in 90 Seconds", reflecting the headline writer's view of the time it might take for a lumbering Globemaster with its flaps down to circle the Pole.I photographed Antarctica just 48 years after Amundsen's attainment of the Pole. That seemed an event of the very distant past, yet 50 years have already passed since then. Recently I realized that my photographs might have an "archaeological" interest in view of the dramatic changes and research advances that have taken place on the continent.Thus my forthcoming book: "DEEPFREEZE! A Photographer's Antarctic Odyssey in the Year 1959". It is a collection of some 85 photographs, accompanied by my contemporaneous account of what I saw. My book is dedicated to the memory of the men and women who have given their lives in the exploration of the continent.

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Speakers

Ms. Helen Campbell SCADM Deputy Chief Officer, United Kingdom
Alan Cooper U.S. Geological Survey
Peter Barrett Antarctic Research Centre, Victoria University, New Zealand
Robert DeConto Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts
Robert Dunbar Environmental Earth Systems Science, Stanford University
Carlota Escutia Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra (IACT), Spain
Dr. Martin Seigert Head of the School of GeoSciences
Nigel Wardell Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale, Italy
Jon Childs U.S. Geological Survey
John Hocevar Oceans Director
Allison Kole Campaigns Assistant, Science and the Governance of International Commons
Igor Krupnik Smithsonian Institution
Mr. Michael Lang Director, Smithsonian Marine Science Network; Director, Smithsonian Scientific Diving program; Office of the Under Secretary for Science, Smithsonian Institution, United States
Scott E. Miller Smithsonian Institution
Mr. Michael Lang Director, Smithsonian Marine Science Network; Director, Smithsonian Scientific Diving program; Office of the Under Secretary for Science, Smithsonian Institution, United States
Martin Sayer NERC Facility for Scientific Diving, Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory, United Kingdom
Rafael Lemaitre Smithsonian Institution
Valery Lukin Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, Russian Antarctic Expedition
Robert A. McCabe
Anita Dey Nuttall Canadian Circumpolar Institute, University of Alberta
Frank Rack ANDRILL Science Management Office, University of Nebraska Lincoln
Laura De Santis Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale GS, Italy
Richard Levy GNS Science, New Zealand
Tim Naish Antarctic Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Robert DeConto Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts
Carlota Escutia Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra (IACT), Spain
Tina Tin Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition (ASOC)
Rupert Summerson Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Professor David Walton Professor Emeritus, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Julie A Hambrook Berkman Foundation for the Good Governance of International Spaces
Dr. Michele Zebich-Knos Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia, USA

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