New Zealand Antarctic Research Programme

It was created by the Geophysics Division of New Zealand's Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), originally based in Wellington.

The programme promoted research in geochemistry, zoology, geology, botany, meteorology, and limnology.

Members worked as researchers, assistants, tour guides, operators, and administrators to Scott Base.

[3] They hired people to act as field safety leaders and assist scientists during research projects.

In 1967, the first tetrapod remains in Antarctica were discovered by New Zealander Peter Barrett, his finding eventually lending support to the theory of continental drift.