WAP is happy to report an abstract of what Neville Copeland ZL2AKV did write on “Break in” of New Zealand‘s National Radio Society journal of October 1974 and forwarded us by our great friend F6EPN Olivier Dymala, the founder of “Spratley Woody” Facebook page and deep connoisseur of Bases, Remote sites, QSLs and everything related to the Hams in Antarctica.
In the 17 years of scientific research at Scott Base (this was written in 1974.) there have been numerous amateur operators who, no doubt , will be recorded in the history of wintering-over when an official version is published at some later date. The two original foundation members of the fraternity were Peter Mulgrew, ZL2SP, and Ted Gawn, ZL2US (both now SK).
Neville Copeland ZL2AKV, wrote:
I was thrust into the hurly burly of Base routine prior to Christmas 1972 as a rush replacement for t w e appointed postmaster who was repatriated. A hurried week of medicals, x-rays, a dental check up, and a brush up on Post Office procedures, plus settling of my private affairs, was a prelude to the trip South.
Busy Season The summer season is an extremely busy one for the P.O. staff as you can well imagine. There is a fluctuating population of some 1500 at the American McMurdo Station, two miles away, as well as the 30-40 on Scott Base, who all want stamps and toll calls at the same time( I). In addition, the different ships are visited in port, when this is opened by the icebreakers. to sell stamps and the PRO’s books. My official job as postmaster was shared until early February with Lester Price, ZL5AP. From then on I was alone with my technician, Allan Dawrant, to sort out the communication problems. Perhaps I may go down in history as the last full-time Morse operator working an “inland” station, as Olivetti teleprinters have now been installed for telegraph traffic. After Les ZL5AP returned to New Zealand, I was saddled with three daily CW schedules with the International Telegraph Office in Wellington, where I had been previously employed. I also had daily afternoon radio telephone schedules with Island Services Wellington and three evening R/T skeds, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays….
It was the time when skilled Radio operators spent their free breack to log Hams worldwide and it was the time (which probably will never came back) when for us, young Hams (now Old Timers), was always an emotion to log Antarctic Station and later getting QSLs
This is just and abstract but I’m wondering how many of us, in the last 10-15 years, have got a chance to work New Zealand’s Scott Base (WAP NZL-Ø1)
TNX Spratley Woody (F6EPN) and credit to NZART
The measure is part of a newly published “Conservation Management Plan” (
On 7 february 1959 while officially Australia took over operational command, the remaining US personnel at Wilkes did not take kindly to being under Australian control. 
he’s fighting to achieve a very specific goal: that of obtaining the recognition of Antarctic Specially Protected Area (
The largest and only independent Italian Antarctic expedition was led by Renato Cepparo in 1976-77 to the South Shetland lslands by the Norwegian ship Rig Mare. It was privately funded and fully self-suffícient. and had the aim of carrying out scientific measurements and leaving a pemanent refuge on the Antarctic Peninsula. Fifteen men, among whom were the deputy leader Flavio Barbiero, a medicai doctor, two divers and four mountaineers who climbed seven peaks on King George Island, were put ashore at King George Island. The geologists Gian Camillo Cortemiglia and Remo Terranova were in charge of the scientific part. Cepparo and his companions landed on King George Island and erected a small building that they named after Giacomo Bove. Today the only remains are the abandoned walls of the station and a wooden table. inscribed by Ing. Admiral Flavio Barbiero. The area stili keeps the name Italia Valley.
In 2018 in Cervignano del Friuli (Italy), thank to the inexhaustible commitment of Prof. Julius Fabbri (
In addition a 1:50 scale model of the “Giacomo Bove” Base (
COMNAP 
The Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs Annual General Meeting (
The 46th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting was held with an overarching theme of Tasudhaiva Kutumbakam a Sanskrit phrase which means one Earth, one Family, one Future. This resonates deeply with the Antarctic Treaty System, promoting peace, scientific cooperation. and preservation of Antarctica for mankind.
45th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting – Twenty-fifth Meeting of the Committee for Environmental Protection. Helsinki, Finland – 29 May 2023 – 8 Jun 2023
Decisive has been the help of Scott WA4TTK who did provide his QSL of the contact with Jim Collinson W8IJK/KC4.
Hello Gianni, 
Shackleton Field Camp (aka Shackleton Glacier Camp SHG) is located at 85°05’24” South, 175°19’48” West and lists on WAP-WADA Directory as 
