I was one of the two Americans who wintered over at Scott Base in 1959. We were originally scheduled to go to Byrd Station, but that base was getting dangerously close to the edge of the ice shelf and it was feared that it might go floating out to sea aboard an iceberg during the year. The aurora tower and the scientific instruments were salvaged from Byrd and taken to Scott Base where we and the rest of the base personnel put it all back together again. But the aurora tower does not appear to exist any longer. My job was to do aurora studies and I spent a great deal of time in that tower. There were 13 of us who wintered over that year: 6 Kiwis, 4 Brits, 2 Yanks and a Dutchman. Scott Base was a great place: well-constructed air-tight buildings, a covered way connecting the buildings, private sleeping quarters for all 13 of us over the winter, a fantastic cook (Eric from Nottinghamshire in the UK), an ex-submariner radio operator (Pete) who kept us laughing with his marvelous story-telling. It was an experience that I shall never forget. Our scientific leader was Brian Sanford from North Island and who now lives in the US. We had a pet cat on the base. We named her Igy (for International Geophysical Year) and for a time there was small monument to her atop the Scott Base sign. I don't know what ever happened to her and the monument seems to have disappeared. If possible I would like to establish email contact with current Scott Base inhabitants. If anyone reading this could give me an email address for the base leader or anyone else at the base, I would greatly appreciate it. You can reach me at [email protected] Regards, Paul