One day I visited the New Zealand Station of Scott Base. It is located a few miles from McMurdo Station on the other side of Observation Hill. I wanted to talk to the IT person there to find out how communications worked for Scott Base.
Anthony (on the left) gave me a tour of the base and then I was invited to attend dinner a few weeks later. Scott Base is much smaller in size than McMurdo Station. Scott Base houses about 60 participants while McMurdo houses up to 1100 participants. This means that the Scott Base participants have more than one job while living there. This is a photo of the inside of the bar area.
Scott Base buildings are all light green in color.
This side faces the ice pressure ridges.
The inside is made up of many corridors which connect a number of the buildings.
There are many New Zealand experiments and scientific studies that continue year round.
It was a great honor to be able to take a tour of the facility and learn how they live and work. An even greater honor to be invited to dinner - which was very yummy!
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