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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria University, Wellington N.Z. Vol. 22, No. 5. June 8, 1959
[Introduction]
Last summer a four-man party from Victoria University made some contribution to the knowledge of a small area of Antarctica by treating it unconventionally.
Nowadays the emphasis in polar exploration is swinging more and more to the large expedition, equipped with modern mechanical transport, and usually with considerable indebtedness to the taxpayer of the sponsoring country. Particularly is this true of the Antarctic, but the same applies to the Arctic as well.
However, in the northern regions a valuable amount of exploration, mapping, geological surveys, glaciological and meteorological investigations and so on—have been carried out, over the years, by small, modestly - equipped parties from the universities of Great Britain.
Because of the difference in scale of the transport problem at the two ends of the world, University expeditions of this kind to the Antarctic have not been feasible, but in this last summer, by using transport facilities generously offered by the United States authorities, it proved possible to mount one.