VOYAGE OF MV MAGGA DAN 1960/61 V4 - Weather station establishment on Chick Island

Voyage - 1960/61 V4 - Weather station establishment on Chick Island
VOYAGE OF MV MAGGA DAN 
Voyage Leader:  Phillip Garth Law
Ships Captain:  Vilhelm M Pedersen

Voyage Support:
Deputy Voyage Leader: Robert Frederick Martin Dalton
Medical Officer: Zdenek (Frank) Soucek

Army DUKWs:??
Lt C K Bryant
Sgt H J Burke
Sgt S J Falk
Sgt R Green
Cpl P L Delforce
Cpl C J Dawson

De Havilland Aircraft Pty Ltd:
Beaver VH-PGL
Richard Cresswell, Beaver crew
H J Mountstephen, Beaver engineer and crew

Helicopters:
John Stanwix, Helicopter Utilities
John Arthurson, Helicopter Utilities
B Marshall, Helicopter Utilities

Round Trip:
Mrs Nel Law
Irvin Volbrecht, Observer, US Weather Bureau from v1(60-61)
Anthony John Evans from Macquarie Island
John Warham, Technical Officer(Biology) from Macquarie Island
Colonel A George Owens, returned on Thala Dan
David Cook, Surveyor
W D Parkinson, Geophysicist
R Missen, Automatic Weather Station Technician
Ian Roderick McLeod, Geologist IN on what? OUT

Itinerary:	         Arrive      Depart

Fremantle                22 Jan 61   24 Jan 61
Mawson		          8 Feb 61   11 Feb 61
Wilkes Ice Edge	         16 Feb 61   16 Feb 61
Chick Island Ice Edge	 20 Feb 61   24 Feb 61
Dumont d'Urville	 28 Feb 61   28 Feb 61
Oates Land		  4 Mar 61    9 Mar 61
Macquarie Island	 12 Mar 61   13 Mar 61
Melbourne	         19 Mar 61	

Magga Dan anchored alongside Thala Dan at Mawson on 8 February.  Leaving on 11
February she arrived 130 km off Wilkes on 16 February.  An aerial flight
visited Chick Island to establish a new automatic weather station.  At Mawson
Mrs Nel Law, a passenger on the voyage, became the first woman to visit the
AAT and Terre Adelie.  The ship visited Dumont d'Urville, explored Oates Land
and called at Macquarie Island on the return passage.  A coastal survey was
conducted from Wilkes to Oates Land.

reference "Antarctic Events Database" data of the Australian Antarctic Data Center