17 Jun 2022

The man who first painted Scott Base gives his verdict on keeping the original colour!

From Afternoons, 1:50 pm on 17 June 2022

The public has voted. New Zealand's home in Antarctica will be painted kākāriki green.

Irwyn Smith was down there in the sixties as Post Master and radio operator, and helped paint the original Scott Base green for the first time in 1965.

He has a rock cape on the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf named after him. Irwyn is with us now to talk early days of Scott Base.

Antarctica pre paint job

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