VOYAGE OF MV MAGGA DAN 1958/59 V3 - Wilkes
Voyage - 1958/59 V 3 - Wilkes
VOYAGE OF MV MAGGA DAN
Expedition Leader: Phillip Garth Law
Ship Captain: Harold Moller Pederson
Voyage Support:
Deputy Voyage Leader: Group Captain Robert Frederick Martin Dalton
Army DUKWs:
Lt V C Smith??
Lieut Richard T Willing, RAASC OIC Dukws
Sgt D D Horsley or Horsly??
Sgt J McFarlane??
Sgt J W Heather
Sgt H J Charles
RAAF:
Squadron Leader Douglas Walter Leckie, OIC RAAF Antarctic Flight
Cpl John Williams, Airframe Fitter, remained at Wilkes as additional
technician
Flight Lieutenant Jim C Kichenside, OIC elect Mawson 1960
Round Trip:
Lieut/Cdr Ian Burnside, Hydrographer, RAN
Bruce Burns Coombes, Airfield Surveyor, Department of Civil Aviation
Dr W Bryden, Biologist, Director, Hobart Museum
Norman James Dyson, Oceanographer, CSIRO Division of Fisheries and Oceanography
Dr Brian O'Brian, Ant Div
Alan Campbell-Drury, Photographer, Ant Div
John Alfred Hollingshead, Ant Div
Malcolm Mellor, Ant Div
George Smith, Ant Div
Itinerary: Arrive Depart
Melbourne 6 Jan 59
Lewis Island 13 Jan 59 15 Jan 59
Dumont d'Urville 18 Jan 59 18 Jan 59
Lewis Island 19 Jan 59 21 Jan 59
Wilkes 24 Jan 59 5 Feb 59
Lewis Island 9 Feb 59 9 Feb 59
Oates Land 20 Feb 59 21 Feb 59
Macquarie Island 27 Feb 59 27 Frb 59
Hobart 3 Mar 59 3 Mar 59
Melbourne 5 Mar 59
This voyage resupplied and officially took over for Australia the American IGY
station Wilkes on 4 February. The ship visited Lewis Island to overhaul the
automatic weather station and explored the unknown coast of Oates Land near
150 E where a landing was made on 20 February , the flag was raised and an
astrofix taken. Aerial reconnaissance using Auster aircraft was made.
On 2 February USS Staten Island embarked American personnel from Wilkes.
On board was Sir Raymond Priestly, official UK observer. Macquarie Island
was visited on the return passage.
reference "Antarctic Events Database" data of the Australian
Antarctic Data Center
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