Antarctic brochure

item details

NameAntarctic brochure

ProductionAir New Zealand Ltd.; creating agency; 1979; New Zealand

Classificationpamphlets, brochures

Materialspaper, ink

Techniquesprinting

DimensionsOverall: 210mm (width), 297mm (height)

Registration NumberGH024588

Credit lineGift of Sheena Hudson, 2015

Overview

This Air New Zealand brochure advertised four sightseeing flights to Antarctica scheduled for November 1979. The brochure includes extensive information on the flight experience, photographs of previous trips, and a map of the journey.

Donor Sheena Hudson went on the 21 November flight, one week before the fatal crash of Air New Zealand flight 901 on Mt Erebus, Ross Island, on 28 November 1979. All 257 people on board were killed. It remains the worst civil disaster in New Zealand's history.

Sightseeing flights to Antarctica had started in February 1977 and were very successful. Hudson had an 'amazing flight and I was pretty shattered when the crash happened the next week. I had wanted to see Antarctica and it was magic'. The flight inspired her to apply as a general hand at Scott Base in 1985.