File:Crewmember doing iceberg lookout on the USNS Southern Cross (Ross Sea, Antarctica, 1981).jpg

Summary[edit]

Date: Circa 1982, 1983
Location: Ross Sea, Antarctica
Photographer: Randy C. Bunney

An able seaman stands iceberg lookout on the bow of the freighter USNS Southern Cross during a re-supply mission to McMurdo Station, Antarctica; circa 1981.

Caption[edit]

The USNS Southern Cross made the first known non-stop voyage from Port Hueneme, Calif., to Antarctica in 1983 under the command of the late Capt. Bjorn Werring. A polar navigator in his own right, Werring was the great nephew of Roald Amundsen, first to the South Pole in 1911.

Werring retraced his uncle's passage to Ross Island as master of the Southern Cross during multiple voyages as part of Operation Deep Freeze to resupply McMurdo Station, Antarctica. Capt. Werring built a scale model of the Southern Cross that he launched in Winter's Quarters Bay in McMurdo Sound.

Werring served with the Norwegian Navy during WW II and emigrated to the United States in 1955. Fishdecoy 15:25, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

See Also[edit]

• Ice pier

Sources[edit]

• Command Naval Support for Antarctica telex, Captain Shoemaker. February 1983
• "Strong Antarctic ties for captain," The Press; Christ Church, New Zealand. Circa 1982.

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