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

A seaman aboard the freighter USNS Southern Cross stands iceberg lookout in the Ross Sea during a re-supply mission to McMurdo Station, Antarctica.

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Capt. B.J. Werring with the ship's model he made aboard the USNS Southern Cross.

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)

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Ice pier

[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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This image is licensed under the Creative Commons
Attribution ShareAlike License v. 2.5:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/
Attribution: Randy C. Bunney, Great Circle Photography

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