Ridgway Lythgoe New Zealand Conservationist - rare Antarctica photographs 1978 continued.

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Actively supporting NZ’s endangered wetland birds

Ridgway Lythgoe in Antarctica Summer 77-78 

We are continuing to post photographs from Ridgway’s slide collection taken during his year long stay 1977-1978.

US Icebreaker   McMurdo Sound

These include images from around Scott Base and McMurdo Sound where he was mostly stationed over this time. 

US Base McMurdo Sound

Then shots of his fellow workers. 

Painting Lake Vanda

Frozen surface of Lake Vanda

Then additional images of taken in areas where the DSIR were active including Lake Vanda.   

Burning off oil - McMurdo Sound 1978

Chapel of the Snows McMurdo 

The Chapel of the Snows  has been rebuilt three times. This is the second chapel which was destroyed by fire towards the end of Ridgways tenure on the ice. It is the last photograph taken of it.

Ice fall

We'll be putting up a final suite of images from back in New Zealand on our next post. Track we were listening too while posting this was Johnny Nash's -I can see clearly now. 

I think I can make it now, the pain is gone

All of the bad feelings have disappeared

Here is the rainbow I've been praying' for

It's gonna be a bright (bright), bright (bright)

Sun-Shiny day.

Susie chose this and you can see why with the world starting to run so perilously off its rails. Perhaps this will help steady it up a little...

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