Arriving at the McMurdo base, he discovers such banal appurtenances as a bowling alley and A.T.
She was flown from the South Pole to McMurdo Station, then on to Christchurch.
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New Zealand rescue authorities are co-ordinating the search with US officials at the McMurdo Antarctic station.
In 2010, New Zealand's air force -- in two separate incidents -- evacuated two Americans from McMurdo.
CNN: Rescue plane leaves Antarctica after picking up patient
Some points of interest will include McMurdo Sound, the Ross Ice Shelf, the Mertz and Ninnis Glaciers and Mount Erebus.
McMurdo is also the staging ground for another group of scientists drilling into the continent to look into the planet's past.
McMurdo can accommodate nearly 1, 500 people, but only some 60 to 70 people stay there during the winter, when the extreme weather precludes regular flights, Wing said.
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From a platform of sea-ice, a team of researchers from Germany, Italy, New Zealand and the United States has been drilling down into the sea floor beneath the McMurdo Sound.
One plan under consideration calls for tractor traverses from the base on the coast at McMurdo to the pole via the newly established Leverett Glacier route to transport the cable.
The final leg from New Zealand to the Antarctic was an epic in itself, battling violent storms and treacherous pack ice before the Nimrod anchored in McMurdo Sound on Jan 28th 1908.
It is evident in the 1, 200 sculptures, large and small, he created in, as he proudly noted, seven continents. (A de Weldon monument of Richard Byrd, an American polar explorer, is in McMurdo Sound, in Antarctica).
Many of them come on cruise ships, often passing through Chile or Argentina first, but there are also more than a dozen research stations on the continent, the largest being the McMurdo Station in the south, which can support more than a thousand people.
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