-SMcM_1.jpg "Colin Meurk and Shelley McMurtrie with artists Ben Reid (third from left) and Annabel Menzies-Joyce (right) as they get ready to depart Campbell Island on the Maia")
Artists Ben Reid and Annabel Menzies-Joyce came down to Campbell Island during our mid-term resupply. They were there to experience the island through different eyes to the researchers and to interact with the research teams to understand the work that the expedition was doing. Out of this they would be able to tell the story of Campbell Island and its recovery from two centuries of human influence in a different way to that of the research outputs. Ben and Annabel have both achieved a...
THE JOURNEY
Outputs
Shelley McMurtrie
27 Feb 2013 - 21:29
-SMcM.jpg "Ben Reid at Garden Cove during the Campbell Island Bicentennial Expedition mid-term resupply (with a sealion admirer...)")
-SMcM_0.jpg "Colin Meurk and Shelley McMurtrie with artists Ben Reid (third from left) and Annabel Menzies-Joyce (right) as they get ready to depart Campbell Island on the Maia")
It’s been a long time coming but, I have finally produced work in response to my time spent on Campbell Island. I have succeeded in completing 12 new original prints in time for the first show on the 27th of February in Wellington.
Making the commitment to hold five exhibitions to show my prints eight months out, with none of the printing done and with only some loose ideas of what I’m going to do and how...
Shelley McMurtrie
21 Jul 2012 - 09:00
Technical Assistance
After 44 years reading the weather, and seven years combined time on Campbell Island (the longest combined time on the island) manning New Zealand's most southern meteorological station, it is time for Mark to hang up the thermometer.
Mark was a key support personnel on the Campbell Island expedition - downloading and interpreting weather maps every night so that we knew what kind of weather was in store for us on the following days. Without Marks interpretation we would not...
Norm Judd
30 Jun 2012 - 11:30
History and Archaeology
A WRECK IN THE HARBOUR?
Lack of drift material in Monument Harbour
In January 2007, Chris, Matt and I clambered amongst the large boulders along Monument Harbour’s eastern coast to the harbour entrance. We saw no flotsam. I took...
Norm Judd
16 Jun 2012 - 11:30
History and Archaeology
01.jpg "A few rods and a small amount of timber were all that we could see of the beam. Photo by Chris Glasson, January 2007")
03.jpg "A 30mm long iron pin protrudes through the peat under the beam. Image by Chris Glasson, Januay 2007")
01.jpg "The plank on the other side of the stream. Photo by Chris Glasson, 2007.")
02.jpg "The plank had a rusted iron pin and a square head spike) embedded at one end. Photo by Chris Glasson, 2007.")
04.jpg "The objects were measured and the site surveyed. Photo by Chris Glasson, 2007.")
05.jpg "Norm probing timber beam ends under the peat to measure length while the local sea lions look on. Photo by Chris Glasson, 2007.")
03.jpg "New Zealand sea lions (Phocarctos hookeri) play near the plank on the east side of the stream. Photo by Chris Glasson, 2007.")
.jpg "A young male Elephant Seal (Mirounga leonina) Monument Harbour. Photo by Chris Glasson, 2007.")
.gif "The Beam in 2007. From JUDD, N., Wreckage in Monument Harbour, Campbell Island: Report to Historic Places Trust and Department of Conservation, in fulfilment of Authority No. 2007/132, ‘to investigate an archaeological site at Monument Harbour, Campbell Island’")
.gif "The Plank in 2007 From JUDD, N., Wreckage in Monument Harbour, Campbell Island: Report to Historic Places Trust and Department of Conservation, in fulfilment of Authority No. 2007/132, ‘to investigate an archaeological site at Monument Harbour, Campbell Island’.")
THE 2007 SURVEY
We arrived on New Year’s Eve 2006 and tramped to the site with guidance from Department of Conservation officer, Matt Charteris.
We found the beam on the west side of the stream from Six Foot Lake (see first image). A few rods and a small amount of timber were all that we could see of the beam (see second image). Then Matt found a plank of similar age on the east side of the stream.
...
Norm Judd
9 Jun 2012 - 11:30
History and Archaeology
01.jpg "‘Object’, view south to Monument harbour. Photo by Chris Glasson, January 1972")
02.jpg "‘Object’, view northwest to Eboule Peak. Photo by Chris Glasson, January 1972")
1972: Sixty years after the whalers, in January 1972, a weather station technician, Chris Glasson, tramped to a bay somewhere on Campbell Island’s southern coast. Here Chris saw a large timber beam with iron spikes sticking out of the peat.
It had been unearthed by wallowing elephant seals and Chris thought that the iron spikes protruding from the beam had discouraged the monsters from dislodging and...
Norm Judd
26 May 2012 - 11:30
History and Archaeology
01.jpg "Picture frame by a Campbell Island whaler 1912. Was the timber retrieved from Monument Harbour? Photo courtesy Mike Taylor, Picton Museum")
02.jpg "Close-up of picture frame by a Campbell Island whaler in 1912. Photo courtesy Mike Taylor, Picton Museum")
EARLY EVIDENCE
1874: Among several Campbell Island wreck reports of the 1800s, is the following from the December 1874 edition of Nature translated from the French, being part of an account by a French Expedition to Witness the Transit of Venus on Campbell Island that year [iii].
Where was this supposedly metaphorical middle of Campbell Island?
"While exploring the island they found...
Norm Judd
11 May 2012 - 17:00
History and Archaeology
.jpg "South-western coastline Campbell Island. Monument Harbour is hidden to the left of Jacquemart Island faintly visible in the distance. Image Archives NZ: RNZAF Photographer 1951 [ABFX 23 C5 W3639] - 3")
INTRODUCTION
Since 1976, my initial interest had been for the terrestrial historic sites of Campbell Island. One wreck only was recorded on Campbell Island; that of the sealing brig Perseverance in 1828. Two the crew of were drowned [i]. But over time I increasingly wondered about the bulwarks, parts of ship’s boats, planks and spars, old and new that had been seen in North West Bay in the mid to late ...
Shelley McMurtrie
20 Dec 2011 - 18:00
Freshwater Ecology
-SMcM.jpg "Shelley stands in on of the deep cracks that split our roads wide during the February eartquake.")
-SMcM.jpg "The view around the corner from our house in St Albans. Photo Shelley McMurtrie")
-SMcM.jpg "Our beautiful and iconic Christchurch Cathedral in ruins. Photo Shelley McMurtrie")
-SMcM.jpg "Freshwater invertebrate specimens in glass vials, that thankfully didn't break when they fell to the floor in the EOS Ecology lab.")
-SMcM.jpg "The last of the gifted Mountford wines did not make it through the Feb quake.")
-SMcM.jpg "We were very lucky that the EOS Ecology lab wasn't badly damaged in the earthquake, with lack of power the greatest concern was for samples stored in fridges and freezers.")
A lot has happened since we returned on the 11 February to Christchurch from our expedition to Campbell Island. A devastating earthquake 11 days after our return and then another in June were among the more memorable (memorable for all for the wrong reasons) happenings. The February quake sent our freezer in the EOS Ecology lab flying and our irreplaceable 200-odd invertebrate samples thrown to the floor. It was a small miracle that they all survived the shake-up, and our gas-powered...
Norm Judd
16 Oct 2011 - 17:00
History and Archaeology
-S McMurtrie.jpg "Excaving the old fire place at the sod hut discovered on the east side of Tucker Cove by the history team during the Campbell Island Bicentennary Expedition. Photo by Shelley McMurtrie")
-SMcMurtrie.jpg "Steve Bagley, Nigel Prickett, and Shelley McMurtrie en route to Southeast Harbour to look for signs of habitation by sealers from the past. Photo by Shelley McMurtrie")
-SMcMurtrie.jpg "Steve Bagley and Nigel Prickett painting the finger post at Southeast Harbour. The paint will fade to a clear colour when dry, and will protect this historic site feature for a few more years. Photo by Shelley McMurtrie")
-S McMurtrie.jpg "Steve Bagley battling through the thick undergrowth on the way from Southeast Habour to Six Foot Lake to retrive an iron pin from an old shipwreck timber")
-SMcMurtrie.jpg "Steve and Nigel lifting the sod from a shripwrecked timber in Monument Harbour to remove the iron pin (in foreground) for metallurgical analysis. Photo by Shelley McMurtrie.")
The basic reporting on the ‘what’ and ‘where’ of the Heritage Team’s work is nearing completion. Site records will be sent for inclusion in the New Zealand Archaeological Association (NZAA) Site Record File, which is the central repository accessed by the NZ Historic Places Trust, Department of Conservation and any researcher or other interested...
Shelley McMurtrie
30 Jul 2011 - 15:53
Terrestrial Ecology
-SMcM_0.jpg "Alex (left) and Colin (right) surveying one of their long-term plant plots")
Alex Fergus is giving a talk for the botanical society of Otago about the dramatic vegetation changes over the last 200 years of human occupation of Campbell Island.
The talk is on the 10th August 2011. Find out more at:
http://www.botany.otago.ac.nz/bso/...
Mark Crompton
8 Jan 2011 - 20:38
One of my projects has been to make an accurate and definitive record of the Meteorological Station and its ancillary facilities (the station was closed 15 years ago in 1995) before the buildings deteriorate further or are removed altogether (already the Ionosonde Building, Magnetic Building, Fluxgate Magnetometer Hut and Seismo Hut have been dismantled and the Hydrogen Shed and Aurora House are next on the list).
The station forms a small but significant part of our history and...
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