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Biologist, Ron Balham, proudly displays his 'catch' - the result of fishing through a hole in the ice.

Dr Balham was part of the British Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (BCTAE) which completed the first overland crossing of the Antarctic Continent from the Weddell Sea, via the South Pole, to McMurdo Sound, in 1957.

Retrieved from: http://www.scottbase50years.co.nz/history/tae_iggy/science/gallery/science02.htm on 12/06/2007.

REF: TAE 689.

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