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[edit] Summary
Date: 1983
Location: South Pacific enroute to McMurdo Station, Antarctica
Photographer: Randy C. Bunney
The late Capt. Bjorn Werring, a polar navigator in his own right, was the great nephew of Roald Amundsen, first to the South Pole in 1911. Norwegian-born Werring commanded the freighter USNS Southern Cross when it made the first known non-stop voyage from Port Hueneme, Calif., to Antarctica in 1983.
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.
[edit] Sources
- 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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