Other information, anecdotes etc.
Pete Davies writes:
When renewing the honeypots, if you turned them around so that the chiselled out lifting hole
was at the front, you could hear the curses of the unwary as they sat down for a crap...
and realised they'd just peed on their trousers! Oh how we laughed....
[10 March 2003]
On the old base: "The problems of living in an all-ice environment were demonstrated
when the Aga cooker flue worked loose and started melting the ice surrounding the accommodation
and flooding it." [BAS Club Newsletter 15, Spring 1984]
No proper shower facilities existed on the new base, so Tony Escott rigged a coffee boiler
upstairs and ran a heat-lagged pipe down to a perforated coffee tin set in an improvised
shower cubicle. [Fuchs medal presentation printed in the BAS Club Newsletter 18,
Christmas 1985]
Gerry Johnson was later base commander of the Greenpeace "World Park" base on Ross Island (1985-86).
Other Halley fids involved were Doug Allan, John Fleming, Andy Hill.
Links
Summer 1982-83
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David Spencer writes:
Cousin to Gerry Johnson who wintered over 84/85 (from memory!) at Halley. Brothers (Tim and Matthew) and father (Ernest) also did a
number of summers between them on Shackleton (original), John Biscoe and Bransfield variously.
[20 March 2006]
