-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...
Campbell Island Bicentennial Expedition
Ben Reid - first Cambell Island exhibition
-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")
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...
Mark Crompton - an 'old weather recorder'
Shelley McMurtrie
21 Jul 2012 - 09:00
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'S BLOG 6 : Wreck relics in Monument Harbour
Norm Judd
30 Jun 2012 - 11:30
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'S BLOG 5 : Wreck relics in Monument Harbour
.jpg "Head of Monument Harbour. View to the Six Foot Lake outlet and Mt Honey in 2011. Image by Norm Judd 2011")
-SMcM.jpg "The Maia's first mate lowering the IRB which was used to ferry Norm back and forth across the bay with his magnetometer. Photo © Shelley McMurtrie, 2011")
-SMcM.jpg "Nigel and Steve descending Puiseux Peak to Six Foot Lake in January 2011. The location of timber beam is at the bright green grass at the lake outlet (left of image). Photo © Shelley McMurtrie.")
-SMcM.jpg "Nigel Prickett (back) and Steve Bagley lifting the sod on the timber beam in January 2011. Photo © Shelley McMurtrie.")
-SMcM.jpg "Nigel Prickett (back) and Steve Bagley measuring the timber beam in January 2011. Photo © Shelley McMurtrie.")
-SMcM.jpg "The timber beam after lifting the sod in January 2011. Photo © Shelley McMurtrie, 2011")
-SMcM.jpg "Nigel Prickett (from left), Steve Bagley and Shelley McMurtrie savouring the moment after completion of the sod lifting around the timber beam in January 2011. Photo © Shelley McMurtrie.")
-2011.jpg "The iron pin collected from the beam in Monument Harbour in January 2011. Photo by Norm Judd 2011.")
Norm Judd
23 Jun 2012 - 11:30
.jpg "Head of Monument Harbour. View to the Six Foot Lake outlet and Mt Honey in 2011. Image by Norm Judd 2011")
-SMcM.jpg "The Maia's first mate lowering the IRB which was used to ferry Norm back and forth across the bay with his magnetometer. Photo © Shelley McMurtrie, 2011")
-SMcM.jpg "Nigel and Steve descending Puiseux Peak to Six Foot Lake in January 2011. The location of timber beam is at the bright green grass at the lake outlet (left of image). Photo © Shelley McMurtrie.")
-SMcM.jpg "Nigel Prickett (back) and Steve Bagley lifting the sod on the timber beam in January 2011. Photo © Shelley McMurtrie.")
-SMcM.jpg "Nigel Prickett (back) and Steve Bagley measuring the timber beam in January 2011. Photo © Shelley McMurtrie.")
-SMcM.jpg "The timber beam after lifting the sod in January 2011. Photo © Shelley McMurtrie, 2011")
-SMcM.jpg "Nigel Prickett (from left), Steve Bagley and Shelley McMurtrie savouring the moment after completion of the sod lifting around the timber beam in January 2011. Photo © Shelley McMurtrie.")
-2011.jpg "The iron pin collected from the beam in Monument Harbour in January 2011. Photo by Norm Judd 2011.")
WHAT THE CAMPBELL ISLAND BICENTENNIAL EXPEDITION (CIBE) FOUND IN 2011
In December 2010, and January and February 2011, the Campbell Island Bicentennial Expedition, (CIBE) was on Campbell Island. The cultural heritage team; archaeologists Steve Bagley and Nigel...
NORM'S BLOG 4 : Wreck relics in Monument Harbour
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’.")
Norm Judd
16 Jun 2012 - 11:30
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'S BLOG 3 : Wreck relics in Monument Harbour
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")
Norm Judd
9 Jun 2012 - 11:30
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's BLOG 2 : Wreck relics in Monument Harbour
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")
Norm Judd
26 May 2012 - 11:30
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's BLOG 1 : Wreck relics in Monument Harbour
.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")
Norm Judd
11 May 2012 - 17:00
.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 ...
Freshwater ecology team update – earthquakes and online keys
-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.")
Shelley McMurtrie
20 Dec 2011 - 18:00
-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...
