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
Descendants of the 23 pioneers that laid the foundations for Antarctica New Zealand and New Zealand's presence on the frozen continent will gather together this weekend to remember the contribution made by their fathers 60 years ago.
Lynn Freeman talks to David Ellis, whose father was Murray Ellis and has organised the Second Generation Reunion, as well as Graham Ayres who was a boy when his mountaineer father, Harry Ayres, joined Sir Ed Hillary on his polar expedition
