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Victoria University Antarctic Research Expedition Science and Logistics Reports 1998-99: VUWAE 43

VISITORS TO CAPE ROBERTS DURING 1998/99 SEASON

VISITORS TO CAPE ROBERTS DURING 1998/99 SEASON

6. A record was kept of non-CRP visitors to Cape Roberts during the drilling operations phase. Refer to Appendix 2 for a breakdown of visitors and main places they visited. However, Appendix 2 does not include CRP scientists based at the Crary Laboratory, McMurdo Station. The majority of these scientists, about 22, visited both the main Camp and the Drill Site and most overnighted at CR. About 30 Scott Base and McMurdo personnel (most not recorded in Appendix 2) were given the opportunity to visit the main Camp on shift change helicopters during the season. Maximum ground time of about 45 minutes meant they were restricted to the Camp.

7. Of the 81 'visitors' listed in Appendix 2, 26 of them were official Project visitors or specialists - media, Distinguished Visitors (DVs), environmentalists and divers. These people all overnighted at CR, usually for two or more nights. The remainder was predominantly DVs, media and senior NZ and US officials whose visits were usually no more than two to three hours.

8. In summary then, some 85 persons not directly associated with the Project visited CRP. Most did not overnight and the average length of stay would have been about two hours. About a third of these visitors only visited the CR Camp for a short time -long enough for a quick tour and a cup of coffee.