McMurdo

The transition from sea level here in McMurdo to 10,000ft is such a surprise to the system that everyone is prescribed a medication to help our bodies adjust to the lower oxygen levels.

Geophysicists in Antarctica Peggy 2008

The transition from sea level here in McMurdo to 10,000ft is such a surprise to the system that everyone is prescribed a medication to help our bodies adjust to the lower oxygen levels.

Archive 2008-12-01 Peggy 2008

In the middle of October 1957, I set off from Scott Base in McMurdo Sound with a group of farm tractors bound for the South Pole.

Beyond Everest 1983

Very few people in McMurdo sound had any confidence in the travelling ability of our tractors, and our neighbouring Americans and most of the New Zealanders at Scott Base openly doubted that we would go fifty miles out on the Ross Ice Shelf before having to be rescued.

Beyond Everest 1983

"I know you have explained to me how that happened but someone may suggest to me before the enquiry is over that the object was to thats (sic) not to reveal there had been this long standing error in the co-ordinates and that is why the word McMurdo was relayed to them.

Judgments of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand on Proceedings to Review Aspects of the Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Mount Erebus Aircraft Disaster C.A. 95/81 New Zealand. Court of Appeal

When she arrived, the temperature was hovering around zero degrees Fahrenheit at McMurdo, which is on the Antarctic coast, far removed from ­and much warmer than ­the pole.

‘Today’ at the Ends of the Earth - Media Decoder Blog - NYTimes.com 2007

When she arrived, the temperature was hovering around zero degrees Fahrenheit at McMurdo, which is on the Antarctic coast, far removed from ­and much warmer than ­the pole.

‘Today’ at the Ends of the Earth - Media Decoder Blog - NYTimes.com 2007

In my opinion, the introduction of the word 'McMurdo' into the Air

Judgments of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand on Proceedings to Review Aspects of the Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Mount Erebus Aircraft Disaster C.A. 95/81 New Zealand. Court of Appeal

'Someone may suggest before the inquiry is over' that the word 'McMurdo' was relayed to McMurdo to conceal a long-standing error in the co-ordinates.

Judgments of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand on Proceedings to Review Aspects of the Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Mount Erebus Aircraft Disaster C.A. 95/81 New Zealand. Court of Appeal

In my view the word 'McMurdo' would merely be regarded, and was indeed regarded, by McMurdo Air Traffic Control as referring to the same McMurdo waypoint which had always existed.

Judgments of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand on Proceedings to Review Aspects of the Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Mount Erebus Aircraft Disaster C.A. 95/81 New Zealand. Court of Appeal