Category : Back in the Day

This isn’t the sort of summer camp where you send the kids. Rather, Summer Camp became known as the collection of Jamesways and other buildings...

The year was 1979. Of the many people who stepped off a plane that year, four of them are still working here 35 years later....

My father, Wesley B. Harding, came to Antarctica a little more than 50 years ago to install an early experiment to study cosmic rays from...

Two Americans inspired by tales of heroism in the age of exploration in Antarctica had a hand in ensuring that part of the continent’s early...

Completion of the conservation work at Discovery Hut in January marked the conclusion of a decade-long effort to protect three of the first human-built structures...

Those who knew Capt. Pieter J. Lenie – the scientists who depended on him to reach the unreachable and the crew that depended upon him...

History is full of tales about boom towns that went bust. Such was the fate of Marble Point, a helicopter refueling station that as early...

The smallest of three U.S. scientific outposts in Antarctica, Palmer Station is the only one of the trio found north of the Antarctic Circle. Its...

On October 31, 1956, a plane descended out of the clear, blue sky at the bottom of the planet. The twin-engine R4D-5 Skytrain, named Que...

In 1969, Lois M. Jones and her science team made history as the first all-female research team to work for the US Antarctic Program. They...