Remembering New Zealand's original Antarctic pioneers

Wintering Party, Scott Base, 1957. Photo: Bob Miller (later Sir Holmes Miller)

Mt Cook Training. Beaver aircraft and husky team upper Tasman Glacier. Photo M Ellis

Wives & children visit the Hermitage. L to R Louise Hillary, Jan Miller, Peter Hillary, Jane Ayres, Roger Miller, Marjorie Miller. Photo B Miller

Endeavour leaving Wellington headin South. Photo J Bates

Ed Hillary - on the Southern Ocean heading to Ross Sea. Photo J Bates

Endeavour at Butter Point (the original Scott Base site). Photo B Miller

Unloading the huskies from Endeavour Butter Point. Photo M Ellis

Offical Opening of Scott Base 20th Jan 1957 Photo M Ellis

Floor Plane of Scott Base Mess Hut. Photo D Ellis

Skelton Depot Feb 1957. Photo B Miller

Skelton Glacier Recce 1957. L to R Richard Brooke Harry Ayres, Murray Douglas. Photo M Ellis

Murray Ellis, Richard Brooke Skelton Glacier. Photo M Ellis.

IGY team at Scott Base. Herbie Orr ,Peter Macdonald, Neil Sandford ,Trevor Hatherton, Vern Gerrard. Photo H Orr

Peter Macdonald and Adelie Penguins Cape Hallet. Photo H Orr

Tide gauge at Scott Base. Photo M Ellis

Selwyn Bucknell Scott Base Cook. Photo J Bates

Lining the Garage. Workshop Scott Base Feb-March 1957. Photo M Ellis

Scott Base from Ross Sea ice pressure ridges. Photo M Ellis

Midwinters Dinner Scott Base 1957. L to R Bernie Gunn Bill Cranfield Murray Ellis Trevor Hatherton Peter Mulgrew. Photo H Orr

Inside Mess Hut Scott Base January 1958. Photo M Ellis

Ed Hillary Ron Balham Peter Mulgrew Photo M Ellis

Tractor Team lower reaches of the Skelton Glacier. Photo M Ellis

Bob Miller husky Jan - the dog team support on Polar Plateau. Photo B Miller

Harry Ayres, George Marsh, Roy Carlyon - dog team support - Depot 480. Photo M Ellis

Fergusson Tractor in Crevasse on the Polar Plateau Dec 1958. Photo M Ellis

Jim Bates and his makeshift lathe on the Polar Plateau - a total master of invention. Photo M Ellis

Auster Aircraft pilot Bill Cranfield. Photo M Ellis

Murray Ellis re-fuelling tractor on the Polar Plateau. Photo M Ellis

Ed and the tractor team leaving Depot 700 for the South Pole. Photo H Ayres

Greenville Victory carrying some of the wintering over team arriving at Lyttelton Feb 1958. Photo M Ellis