Section XI
Provides information on existing refuges and survival caches in the
McMurdo area as well as deactivated camps and stations elsewhere on the
continent.
McMurdo Area Antarctic Refuges and Survival Caches
Following are the existing refuges
consisting of huts or caches that may be used in emergency survival
situations. These
survival huts and survival caches are located within a 65 nautical
mile radius of McMurdo Station and are inspected annually. Information provided
includes position and description of location and accommodation,
food, fuel, and supplies of other kinds. "Full provisions"
indicates sleeping, eating, and cooking utensils.
Mt. Erebus Hut and
Cache
Position:
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77°30'S;
167°10'E
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Hut:
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Partial
provisions for 3 (no sleeping bags), oxygen, radio during
summer.
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Cache:
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Full
provisions for 6. Located
50 meters from hut.
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Cape Crozier Hut
and Cache
Position:
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77°30'S,
169°40'E
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Hut:
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Wood structure
with some provisions. No radio.
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Cache:
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Full
provisions for 6 located north of the hut.
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Lake Bonney Hut
and Cache
Position:
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77°42'S,
162°27'E
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Hut:
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Jamesway
structure with provisions.
No radio
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Cache:
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Located on
southeastern shore of Lake Bonney, approximately 30m from
lake.
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Lake Vida Cache
Position:
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77°20'S,
162°00'E
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Hut:
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Full
provisions for 6, 30 man/days food. No radio.
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Cache:
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Located
approximately 183m from lake on southwestern shore.
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Lake Hoare Hut
Position:
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76°38'S,
162°57'E
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Hut:
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Wood structure
with provisions. No radio.
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Lake Fryxell Hut
Position:
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77°36'S,
163°07'E
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Hut:
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Jamesway
structure with provisions. No radio.
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New Harbor Hut
Position:
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77°34'S,
163°31'E
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Hut:
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Jamesway
structure with provisions. No radio.
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McMurdo Supported
Remote Locations
Siple Dome Camp
Position:
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81°39'S,
149°04'E
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Camp winterized for the season. 4
Jamesway structures remain standing, food, fuel, survival cache and
heavy equipment staged on site for use during the 1997-98 field
season.
Byrd Surface Camp
Position:
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80°01'S,
119°32'E
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Survival cache and Jamesway, minimal
food and fuel winterized for the season. All wooden structures, heavy
equipment and materials removed from the camp.
Deactivated USAP
Stations and Camps
Data on unoccupied United States
facilities in Antarctica is listed here although such facilities are
not considered usable as refuges.
Some are so deeply buried in snow as to make them
inaccessible, while others are difficult to locate. Information provided: (1) position and description
of location; (2) dates established and deactivated or last visited;
and (3) estimate of available accommodation, food, fuel, and
supplies of other kinds.
Byrd Aurora
Substation
Position: |
79°26'S,
188°4'W,
approximately 64km from present Byrd Station. |
Dates of Operation: |
March 1963 ‑ October 1963 |
Description: |
Prefabricated shelter, 16 man/months
food and supplies, and 9,464 liters of diesel fuel |
Camp Neptune
Position:
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83°31'S,
57°15'W,
Neptune Range of Pensacola Mountains
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Dates of
Operation:
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November 1963
‑ January 1966
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Description:
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4.9m x 7.3m
Jamesway building, 32 drums fuel, 4‑6 man/months food,
113 kg. explosives
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Patuxent Camp
Position:
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84°54'S,
63°W,
Patuxent Range of Pensacola Mountains
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Dates of
Operation:
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November 1962
‑ December 1965
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Description:
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4.8m x 4.8m
Jamesway building, 4 drums fuel, 458 man/days food plus
cooking utensils
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Prebble Glacier
Camp
Position:
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84°15'S,
164°10'E,
at mouth of Prebble Glacier, Queen Alexandra Range
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Dates of
Operation:
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November 1966
‑ February 1967
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Description:
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4.8m x 4.8m
Jamesway building, 4 drums fuel, 1 man/month food supplies
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Camp Gould
Position:
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78°57'S,
85°45'W,
East Heritage Range
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Dates of
Operation:
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November 1962
‑ February 1967
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Description:
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4.8m x 4.8m
Jamesway building, 48 drums fuel, 8‑10 man/months food
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Amundsen Glacier
Camp
Position:
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86°18'S,
160°55'W,
adjacent to Amundsen Glacier on the Faulkner Escarpment
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Dates of
Operation:
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November 1963
‑ January 1964
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Description:
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4.8m x 4.8m
Jamesway building, 4 fuel drums, 400 man/days food, cooking
utensils
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Byrd Coast Camp
Position:
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76°55'S,
144°W,
in Edsel Ford Range at Mount Farley
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Dates of
Operation:
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October 1966
‑ January 1967
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Description:
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4.8m x 4.8m
Jamesway building, 2 man/months food and fuel
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Camp Ohio
Position:
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84°52'S,
114°20'W,
Ohio Range, Horlick Mountains
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Dates of
Operation:
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November 1961
‑ January 1967
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Description:
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4.8m x 4.8m
Jamesway building, 7 drums fuel, cooking utensils, 2 man/weeks
food supplies
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Camp Minnesota
Position:
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73°30'S,
94°30'W,
in northwestern side of Jones Mountain
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Dates of
Operation:
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November 1961
‑ January 1965
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Description:
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4.8m x 4.8m
Jamesway building, unknown quantity of food and fuel
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Little Rockford
Position:
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79°30'S,
147°19'W,
(relocated in 1959 from 79°35'S,
156°46'W)
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Dates of
Operation:
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December 1958
‑ February 1965
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Description:
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3 Wannigans, 1
improvised shelter, food and fuel unknown
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Plateau Station
Position:
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79°15'S,
40°30'E
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Dates of
Operation:
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December 1965
‑ January 1969
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Description:
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Main building
21m x 7.6m van; emergency station separated from main building
consists of 9m x 2.4m van attached to a 4.8m x 8m Jamesway; 3‑4.8m
x 8.5m' and 1‑4.8m x 4.8m Jamesway huts with limited
supply of DFA and mogas available; however, access may be
difficult owing to snow cover; 100 man/months of food plus
cooking utensils.
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Camp Ohio II
Position:
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86°S,
127°W,
near crashed R4D aircraft
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Dates of
Operation:
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November 1962
‑ January 1965
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Description:
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4.8m x 7.3m
Jamesway, 4 drums fuel, 2 man/months food plus cooking
utensils
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Roosevelt Island
Hut
Position:
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80°11'S,
161°39'W
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Dates of
Operation:
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1969
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Description:
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Provisions for
25. No radio
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Hallett Station
Position:
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72°19'S,
170°13'E
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Dates of
Operation:
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January 1957
‑ February 1973
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Description:
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4 buildings
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Brockton Station
Position:
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80°01'S,
178°02'W
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Dates of
Operation:
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October 1965
‑ February 1972
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Description:
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4 buildings,
14 drums fuel, and 4,164 liters bulk fuel
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Marie Byrd Land
Camp
Position:
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75°45'S,
135°W
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Dates of
Operation:
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October
‑ December 1977
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Description:
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5 Jamesway
huts, bulk DFA, food
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Ellsworth
Mountains Camp
Position:
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79°07'S,
85°39'W
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Dates of
Operation:
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November 1979
‑ January 1980
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Description:
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1 Jamesway hut
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McGregor Glacier
Hut
Position:
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85°08'S,
174°50'E
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Dates of
Operation:
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1982‑83
season
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Description:
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Camp buried
under snow. No
radio
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Dome C Camp
Position:
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74°39'S,
124°10'E
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Dates of
Operation:
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Camp active
summer seasons through 1981/82.
Last visited Jan. 1996
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Description:
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8 Jamesway
huts, 3,785 liters POL, and 2,722 kg. food
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Beardmore South
Camp
Position:
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85°2'S,
164°15'E
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Dates of
Operation:
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October 1984
‑ February 1986
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Description:
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Wooden module
buried under snow, mogas, some JP8 available.
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Siple Station
Position:
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75°56'S,
84°15'W
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Dates of
Operation:
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January 1979 -
February 1988
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Description:
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An unsafe
enclosed area under-the-snow, and Jamesway huts on the
surface.
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Upstream Bravo
Position:
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83°29'S,
138°06'W
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Dates of
Operation:
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February 1994
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Description:
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All structures
buried.
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