Talk:Scott Base

Cleanup

I have just finished the start of a big cleanup. The article is too short now, but it is much more relevant. It probably has lots of typo's and spelling mistakes, and more needs to be done. Thing that I think would help would be:

• Add some pictures, because eveyone likes these and they help get ideas across
• Make new articles for

1. The history, possibly using the old article as a starting point
2. The research being done there

• Add some info from someone who has been there.

I left the cleanup tag in, and any help would be very useful. --Apyule 7 July 2005 07:45 (UTC)

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this needs work. there are no dogs there now and much of the other content is obsolete. maybe someone who has been there could give it a rewrite?? --hamilt0n 10:50, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

This page needs help. It was a borderline desicion to go for a cleanup notice over a complete rewrite. The content seems to be about 35 years out of date. If anyone could add to it (and take a fair bit out too) it would be great. -- Apyule 06:02, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

scott base

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See Robert Falcon Scott. Grutness...wha? 02:02, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Name

Which is the correct name of the station?: Scott or Scott Base --Arcibel (talk) 22:50, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

I've never heard it referred to as anything other than Scott Base, and Antarctica New Zealand uses that term exclusively, as far as I'm aware - see [1]. Grutness...wha? 23:43, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the answer. I saw the page but i didn't know if they use it as a part of the name or just to point that is a base.--Arcibel (talk) 00:36, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

I suppose some people find it weird to refer to it as just Scott because this is a common first name. I just looked at a New Zealand government website and it is always Scott Base. Official names of other stations like the American one are McMurdo Station or the British base Rothera Research Station but as these are not common names it is more comfortable to abrieviate them to just McMurdo and Rothera Polargeo (talk) 07:47, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

An added comment - the only person I know personally who's been there never calls it simply "Scott" - always "Scott Base". "McMurdo Station" is often just called "McMurdo", though. Grutness...wha? 02:01, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the comments. --Arcibel (talk) 19:28, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Communications Overstatement

I'm a bit concerned about the way this article talks about the communications links between McMurdo and Scott Base. The article makes it sound like McMurdo station receives phone and data communications primarily from the Scott Base. McMurdo station routes all communications through Black Island the NPOESS satellite system. Perhaps Kiwi links serve as a backup, but it's not even an overflow. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tas50 (talk • contribs) 07:28, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Perhaps this is outdated. I found one supporting document in a quick search ("New Zealand Telecom provides this service [five new public trunk lines] and all calls are routed through Scott Base"), but that dates back to 1996. -- Avenue (talk) 08:00, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

1996 is before NPOESS. Things have changed drastically since that time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tas50 (talk • contribs) 06:37, 30 November 2009 (UTC)