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McMurdo says that he knew this Birdy Edwards, and suggests that McGinty, Baldwin, and five other important members of the group wait in McMurdo's house, while he will lure Birdy Edwards there as a trap.
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McMurdo and Birdy
On that day, while those seven people waiting in the bedroom for the signal to rush out to catch Birdy Edwards, McMurdo walks in, and announced that he is Birdy Edwards, while telling those criminals that they were surrounded by policemen.
McMurdo and McGinty
Scanlan recommends that McMurdo go to old Jacob Shafter's boarding house, and to see Bodymaster McGinty as soon as possible once he reaches the town.
McMurdo later visits Bodymaster McGinty, and claims that he made counterfeit money before killing his partner and coming to the coal mine region.
McGinty decides that Ettie could choose who she likes, as both Baldwin and McMurdo are Freemen.
McMurdo and Baldwin
McMurdo meets and soon falls in love with Ettie Shafter, Jacob's daughter, who is promised to another Freeman, Ted Baldwin.
McMurdo and five
An iceberg that Ice calving | calved off Iceberg B-15 caused extensive pack ice buildup in McMurdo Sound, blocking shipping and preventing penguin access to open water. A common event of previously unseen dimensions occurred on the Ross Ice Shelf in 2000 that wreaked havoc at McMurdo Sound more than five years later.
McMurdo and other
The Balleny corridor through the Southern Ocean would be used by future explorers such as Robert Scott, Ernest Shackleton, Roald Amundsen, and Richard Byrd, and is used today by surface vessels resupplying McMurdo and other scientific bases located in and around the Ross Sea sector of Antarctica.
Scientists and other personnel at McMurdo are participants in the USAP, which co-ordinates research and operational support in the region.
Jimmy Davidson scored one for Queens and Brian McMurdo two, including the last ever goal at the Park ( the Thirds goals came from Kinnaird with two goals and McLaughlan with the other ).
Cold circumpolar currents of the Southern Ocean reduce the flow of warm South Pacific or South Atlantic waters reaching McMurdo Sound and other Antarctic coastal waters.
Prevailing winds spilling into McMurdo Sound shoot between mountain passes and other land formations, stirring up blizzards known locally as “ Herbies .” Such blizzards can occur any time of year.
Modern operations in McMurdo Sound have sparked surface cleanup efforts, recycling, and exporting trash and other contaminates by ship.
McMurdo and important
McMurdo Sound provides an important component in Antarctica ’ s global effects upon climate.
McMurdo and group
He received orders to travel as the Military Escort officer for a group of VIPs who were being flown to the South Pole, November 10 – 28, 1963, to activate a nuclear power plant for heat, light and sea water desalination at the United States Navy Base at McMurdo Sound, Antarctica.
A supporting group, the Ross Sea party, would meanwhile travel to the opposite side of the continent, establish camp in McMurdo Sound, and from there lay a series of supply depots across the Ross Ice Shelf to the foot of the Beardmore Glacier.
A group of scientists at the US McMurdo Station held a rally on the ice at the edge of the Ross sea.
The Dailey Islands () are a group of small volcanic islands lying off the coast of Victoria Land, northeast of Cape Chocolate, in the northern part of the ice shelf bordering McMurdo Sound.
McMurdo and while
The flight was designed and marketed as a unique sightseeing experience, carrying an experienced Antarctic guide who pointed out scenic features and landmarks using the aircraft public-address system, while passengers enjoyed a low-flying sweep of McMurdo Sound.
Two diarists posted entries while on assignment at McMurdo Station, Antarctica during 2001-possibly making Open Diary the first online community to have people writing from all seven continents.
McMurdo and will
The Expedition will travel 3, 600 miles across Antarctica, from Patriot Hills on the west coast to the South Pole, heading north from there through the Trans-Antarctic Mountain Range, down the Leverett Glacier and across the Ross Ice Shelf to the coast at McMurdo.
The dogs are temporarily left behind, but the storm is worse than expected, and because of the harsh weather conditions and a shortage of supplies at the McMurdo Station, it soon becomes apparent that no rescue will be attempted until the next spring.
McMurdo and there
It was therefore unwelcome news to him that Ernest Shackleton had announced his own plans to travel to Discoverys old McMurdo Sound base and launch a bid for the South Pole from there.
The primary focus of the work done at McMurdo Station is science, but most of the residents ( approximately 1, 000 in the summer and fewer than 200 in the winter ) are not scientists, but station personnel who are there to provide support for operations, logistics, information technology, construction, and maintenance.
Recently there has been criticism leveled at the base regarding its construction projects, particularly the McMurdo -( Amundsen-Scott ) South Pole highway.
* In Antarctic Navigation by Elizabeth Arthur, the novel's main character first works at McMurdo Station at a menial job, then later returns there in a very different role, leading a polar expedition to retrace the steps of Robert Scott.
In December 1966 the Navy transported the expedition and its supplies from Christchurch, New Zealand to the U. S. base at McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, and from there in a ski-equipped C-130 Hercules to the Sentinel Range.
Between October and February, there are several flights per day of ski-equipped LC-130 Hercules aircraft from McMurdo to supply the station.
By 1995 there were M-bone links in Russia, as well as at the McMurdo Sound research station in Antarctica.
McMurdo and .
The McMurdo – South Pole Highway is a 900-mile ( 1450 km ) road in Antarctica linking the United States McMurdo Station on the coast to the Amundsen – Scott South Pole Station.
Antarctica's only harbour is at McMurdo Station.
With 33. 7 % salinity, it is also one of the world's saltiest bodies of water, though Lake Assal ( Djibouti ), Garabogazköl and some hypersaline lakes of the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica ( such as Don Juan Pond ) have reported higher salinities.
* 1819 – William McMurdo, English army officer ( d. 1894 )
** The same code is also used to reach Scott Base in Antarctica and the United States base McMurdo Station nearby.
Scott claimed, in the first of a series of letters to Shackleton, that the area around McMurdo was his own " field of work " to which he had prior rights until he chose to give them up, and that Shackleton should therefore work from an entirely different area.
He based his expedition at Cape Royds in McMurdo Sound, and this breach of agreement caused a profound shift in the Scott – Shackleton relationship.
A small reactor was used to supply power ( 1. 5 MWe ) and heating to McMurdo Station, a US Antarctic base, for ten years to 1972, testing the feasibility of such air-portable units for remote locations.
It is launched from McMurdo Station, Antarctica in December 1991, steady winds carried the balloon on a circumpolar flight lasting about two weeks.
He also participated, with the scientists Edward Wilson and Hartley Ferrar, in the first sledging trip from the expedition's winter quarters in McMurdo Sound, a journey which established a safe route on to the Great Ice Barrier.
After a medical examination ( which proved inconclusive ), Scott decided to send Shackleton home on the relief ship Morning, which had arrived in McMurdo Sound in January 1903.
Shackleton's original plans had envisaged using the old Discovery base in McMurdo Sound to launch his attempts on the South Pole and South Magnetic Pole.
However, before leaving England he had been pressured to give an undertaking to Scott that he would not base himself in the McMurdo area, which Scott was claiming as his own field of work.
An extended search for an anchorage at King Edward VII Land proved equally fruitless, so Shackleton was forced to break his undertaking to Scott and set sail for McMurdo Sound, a decision which, according to second officer Arthur Harbord, was " dictated by common sense " in view of the difficulties of ice pressure, coal shortage and the lack of any nearer known base.
Nimrod arrived at McMurdo Sound on 29 January, but was stopped by ice north of Discoverys old base at Hut Point.
Their return journey to McMurdo Sound was a race against starvation, on half-rations for much of the way.
Ground stations had number names ; for example, Station 019 was McMurdo Station, Antarctica.
An enormous cargo sled being maneuvered by a 10K-AT " All Terrain " Forklift truck | forklift at McMurdo Station in Antarctica.
In the west of the Ross sea, McMurdo Sound is a port which is usually free of ice during the summer.
Ross Island is an island formed by four volcanoes in the Ross Sea near the continent of Antarctica, off the coast of Victoria Land in McMurdo Sound.
Today Ross Island is home to New Zealand's Scott Base, and the largest Antarctic settlement, the U. S. Antarctic Program's McMurdo Station.
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