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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria University, Wellington N.Z. Vol. 22, No. 5. June 8, 1959

Anomalous

Anomalous

Fascinating is certainly the right word to use for the area. Many aspects seemed anomalous. To start with, the weather was surprising.

At our base camp, which was about 500 feet above sea level the temperature rose on two days to 47 degrees F, while the lowest was only 22 degrees F, and the average for the 52 days that we were there was 33 degrees F.

This is about 15 degrees F higher than the average temperature for December and January at Scott Base, and about 10 degrees F higher than the value for the U.S. station at Marble Point on the coast of McMurdo Sound, 40 miles east of our base camp.