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Victoria University Antarctic Research Expedition Science and Logistics Reports 2005-06: VUWAE 50

ADDITIONAL EQUIPMENT TAKEN TO SCOTT BASE

ADDITIONAL EQUIPMENT TAKEN TO SCOTT BASE

Numerous items have purchased by K047 over the years, but this past season there were 2 issues; 1) A solar panel kit for charging computers in the field was promised by Antarctica NZ, and this piece of kit never arrived. Prudently, I brought my own solar panel charging kit, but this added 40 lbs of cargo to SB. 2) Because of past experience in trying to cram 4 people into a Scott tent for cooking and evening discussion, I purchased an Arctic Oven (AO) tent, which has been used sucessfully for winter camping on the north slope of Alaska. The tent has about the same floor space as an Endura but is half the weight and much easier to set up. Modifications were made to the AO tent to make it more wind resistant, but the tent was deemed to be unsafe for Dry Valley conditions. I was faced with not using the AO and taking an Endura, a situation which would put us over the allowable helio weight. A compromise was reached in that a Scott tent, which just put us under allowable weight, would be used as a backup. The AO tent weathered 40-50kt gusts in Beacon and Kennar valleys without problems.

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