Signy Base - Walter Townsend - 1960's
Antarcticans Database Project
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Life on Base
To Let
Family portrait - 1963
Only the Ship and Haircut Changes
Base From Robin
The Way to a FIDS Heart ...is via smoko goodies
Don't Scientists Do Funny Things?
Arrr!!! and When I Get There I'll Drink All The Rum!
Fiddus domesticus (L.) in Natural Environment
Divers Charlie LeFevre and Pete Redfern
Entering the Water
The Old Superglue on the Eyepieces Trick was Wearing Thin by September
Oooh! - She! My Fave!
Esme the Husky
Signy Husky
Pete Tilbrook & Alf Amphlett with pups
Furry Friends
Husky Puppies
We had to make our own entertainment in them days
Terrestrial Biologist on the Back Slope
Cook Under Observation
Barry Heywood Titrating
A good catch
Notothenia
Fish for Tea
Pete Tilbrook prepares the catch
Hauling The Rose out after Maintenance
Boat Maintenance
Approaching Shingle Cove behind The Biscoe Kid
A Quick Brew before Setting up Camp - Shingle Cove
Camp At Shingle Cove
Building refuge at Shingle Cove, Coronation Island
Sunshine Glacier from Shingle Cove
Shingle Cove - a shed with a view
Putting up Shackles on Aerials
Daily Bread
Ice flowers forming on new sea ice
Pancake Ice Starts to Consolidate
Tonsberg House and Winter Ice
Wintering party - 1963
Standing on the corner - Waiting for a Bus
Fresh water for the kitchen - Snow block goes into melt tank for freshwater
GP eggs for breakfast
Pete Tilbrook tackles a GP egg
Coal Mining
Harpoon head
Cutting up seals to feed the dogs
Portrait of a Honorary Fid
Mechanic Alf Amphlett - and Electrical Generator
Hanging out the washing
Collecting glacier ice for fresh water
Making an igloo - because he can!
Midwinter 1963
Base party in winter
Winter pass-times - making a ship in a bottle
Storing Penguin eggs
Fred Topliffe - Tagging a recently born Weddell seal
Fred with Giant Petrel eggs
Looking Towards Coronation Island
Fid Captures Genetic Variant of Mutt
Grave and Cross of Roger Filer
Husky has a bad trip in the psychedelic sixties
All pictures on this page copyright of Walter Townsend