Section XI Provides information on
existing refuges and survival caches in the McMurdo area as well as deactivated camps and stations
elsewhere on the continent.
McMurdo Area Antarctic
Refuges and Survival Caches
Following are the existing refuges consisting of huts or caches that may be used in emergency survival situations. These survival huts and survival caches are located within a 65 nautical mile radius of McMurdo Station and are inspected annually. Information provided includes position and description of location and accommodation, food, fuel, and supplies of other kinds. "Full provisions" indicates sleeping, eating, and cooking utensils.
Mt. Erebus Hut and Cache
Position: |
77°
30'S; 167°
10'E |
Hut: |
Partial provisions for 3 (no sleeping bags), oxygen, radio during summer. |
Cache: |
Full provisions for 6. Located 50 meters from hut. |
Cape Crozier Hut and Cache
Position: |
77°
30'S, 169°
40'E |
Hut: |
Wood structure with some provisions. No radio. |
Cache: |
Full provisions for 6 located north of the hut. |
Lake Bonney Hut and Cache
Position: |
77°
42'S, 162°
27'E |
Hut: |
Jamesway structure with provisions. No radio |
Cache: |
Located on southeastern shore of Lake Bonney, approximately 30m from lake. |
Lake Vida Cache
Position: |
77°
20'S, 162°
00'E |
Hut: |
Full provisions for 6, 30 man/days food. No radio. |
Cache: |
Located approximately 183m from lake on southwestern shore. |
Lake Hoare Hut
Position: |
76°
38'S, 162°
57'E |
Hut: |
Wood structure with provisions. No radio. |
Lake Fryxell Hut
Position: |
77°
36'S, 163°
07'E |
Hut: |
Jamesway structure with provisions. No radio. |
New Harbor Hut
Position: |
77°
34'S, 163°
31'E |
Hut: |
Jamesway structure with provisions. No radio. |
McMurdo Supported Remote Locations
Siple Dome Camp
Position: |
81°
39'S, 149°
04'E |
Camp winterized for the season. 4 Jamesway structures remain
standing, food, fuel, survival cache and heavy equipment staged on site for use during the 1997-98
field season.
Byrd Surface Camp
Position: |
80°
01'S, 119°
32'E |
Survival cache and Jamesway, minimal food and fuel winterized
for the season. All wooden structures, heavy equipment and materials removed from the camp.
Deactivated USAP Stations and Camps
Data on unoccupied United States facilities in Antarctica is
listed here although such facilities are not considered usable as refuges. Some are so deeply
buried in snow as to make them inaccessible, while others are difficult to locate. Information
provided: (1) position and description of location; (2) dates established and deactivated or last
visited; and (3) estimate of available accommodation, food, fuel, and supplies of other kinds.
Byrd Aurora Substation
Position: |
79°
26'S, 188°
4'W, approximately 64km from present Byrd Station. |
Dates of Operation: |
March 1963 - October 1963 |
Description: |
Prefabricated shelter, 16 man/months food and supplies, and 9,464 liters of diesel fuel |
Camp Neptune
Position: |
83°
31'S, 57°
15'W, Neptune Range of Pensacola Mountains |
Dates of Operation: |
November 1963 - January 1966 |
Description: |
4.9m x 7.3m Jamesway building, 32 drums fuel, 4-6 man/months food, 113 kg. explosives |
Patuxent Camp
Position: |
84°
54'S, 63°
W, Patuxent Range of Pensacola Mountains |
Dates of Operation: |
November 1962 - December 1965 |
Description: |
4.8m x 4.8m Jamesway building, 4 drums fuel, 458 man/days food plus cooking utensils |
Prebble Glacier Camp
Position: |
84°
15'S, 164°
10'E, at mouth of Prebble Glacier, Queen Alexandra Range |
Dates of Operation: |
November 1966 - February 1967 |
Description: |
4.8m x 4.8m Jamesway building, 4 drums fuel, 1 man/month food supplies |
Camp Gould
Position: |
78°
57'S, 85°
45'W, East Heritage Range |
Dates of Operation: |
November 1962 - February 1967 |
Description: |
4.8m x 4.8m Jamesway building, 48 drums fuel, 8-10 man/months food |
Amundsen Glacier Camp
Position: |
86°
18'S, 160°
55'W, adjacent to Amundsen Glacier on the Faulkner Escarpment |
Dates of Operation: |
November 1963 - January 1964 |
Description: |
4.8m x 4.8m Jamesway building, 4 fuel drums, 400 man/days food, cooking utensils |
Byrd Coast Camp
Position: |
76°
55'S, 144°
W, in Edsel Ford Range at Mount Farley |
Dates of Operation: |
October 1966 - January 1967 |
Description: |
4.8m x 4.8m Jamesway building, 2 man/months food and fuel |
Camp Ohio
Position: |
84°
52'S, 114°
20'W, Ohio Range, Horlick Mountains |
Dates of Operation: |
November 1961 - January 1967 |
Description: |
4.8m x 4.8m Jamesway building, 7 drums fuel, cooking utensils, 2 man/weeks food supplies |
Camp Minnesota
Position: |
73°
30'S, 94°
30'W, in northwestern side of Jones Mountain |
Dates of Operation: |
November 1961 - January 1965 |
Description: |
4.8m x 4.8m Jamesway building, unknown quantity of food and fuel |
Little Rockford
Position: |
79°
30'S, 147°
19'W, (relocated in 1959 from 79°
35'S, 156°
46'W) |
Dates of Operation: |
December 1958 - February 1965 |
Description: |
3 Wannigans, 1 improvised shelter, food and fuel unknown |
Plateau Station
Position: |
79°
15'S, 40°
30'E |
Dates of Operation: |
December 1965 - January 1969 |
Description: |
Main building 21m x 7.6m van; emergency station separated from main building consists of 9m x 2.4m van attached to a 4.8m x 8m Jamesway; 3-4.8m x 8.5m' and 1-4.8m x 4.8m Jamesway huts with limited supply of DFA and mogas available; however, access may be difficult owing to snow cover; 100 man/months of food plus cooking utensils. |
Camp Ohio II
Position: |
86°
S, 127°
W, near crashed R4D aircraft |
Dates of Operation: |
November 1962 - January 1965 |
Description: |
4.8m x 7.3m Jamesway, 4 drums fuel, 2 man/months food plus cooking utensils |
Roosevelt Island Hut
Position: |
80°
11'S, 161°
39'W |
Dates of Operation: |
1969 |
Description: |
Provisions for 25. No radio |
Hallett Station
Position: |
72°
19'S, 170°
13'E |
Dates of Operation: |
January 1957 - February 1973 |
Description: |
4 buildings |
Brockton Station
Position: |
80°
01'S, 178°
02'W |
Dates of Operation: |
October 1965 - February 1972 |
Description: |
4 buildings, 14 drums fuel, and 4,164 liters bulk fuel |
Marie Byrd Land Camp
Position: |
75°
45'S, 135°
W |
Dates of Operation: |
October - December 1977 |
Description: |
5 Jamesway huts, bulk DFA, food |
Ellsworth Mountains Camp
Position: |
79°
07'S, 85°
39'W |
Dates of Operation: |
November 1979 - January 1980 |
Description: |
1 Jamesway hut |
McGregor Glacier Hut
Position: |
85°
08'S, 174°
50'E |
Dates of Operation: |
1982-83 season |
Description: |
Camp buried under snow. No radio |
Dome C Camp
Position: |
74°
39'S, 124°
10'E |
Dates of Operation: |
Camp active summer seasons through 1981/82. Last visited Jan. 1996 |
Description: |
8 Jamesway huts, 3,785 liters POL, and 2,722 kg. food |
Beardmore South Camp
Position: |
85°
2'S, 164°
15'E |
Dates of Operation: |
October 1984 - February 1986 |
Description: |
Wooden module buried under snow, mogas, some JP8 available. |
Siple Station
Position: |
75°
56'S, 84°
15'W |
Dates of Operation: |
January 1979 - February 1988 |
Description: |
An unsafe enclosed area under-the-snow, and Jamesway huts on the surface. |
Upstream Bravo
Position: |
83°
29'S, 138°
06'W |
Dates of Operation: |
February 1994 |
Description: |
All structures buried. |
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