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Thala Dan 1967

VOYAGE OF MV THALA DAN 66/67 V3 - Dumont d'Urville & Wilkes

Voyage - 66/67 V3 - Dumont d'Urville & Wilkes
VOYAGE OF MV THALA DAN
Voyage Leader: Francis Patrick McMahon
Ship Captain: Wenzel Gommersen

Voyage Support:
Deputy Voyage Leader: Eric Leslie Macklin

Army DUKW crew:
Lieut G Bool
Cpl Ken G Webber or Weber?
Cfn Phillip L Wainwright, RAEME
Lt J B Doohan
Lcpl K Robinson
Lcpl J F Ford

Ian George Bird, Electronics Engineer, Melbourne to Dumont d'Urville to Wilkes
and transferred to Nella Dan for RTA
Dr J Katsufrakis, US Observer, Melbourne to Dumont d'Urville to Melbourne

EPF Party, Melbourne to Dumont d'Urville
Hanf
Fischer
Le Pouriel
Dassonville
Godard
Marguerite
Touzel
Sandron
Guyon
Lacan
Cheval
Henzey

EPF Party, Dumont d'Urville to Melbourne
Guillard
Ambergny
Belloncle
Berthelier
Boisnard
Coppee
Delavigne
Gogny
Isbarrart
Lambert
Le Gallic
Marx
Martin
Salmon
Sauvage
Toskert
Volck
Dagonneau

Itinerary: Arrive Depart

Melbourne 6 Jan 67
Dumont d'Urville 15 Jan 67 15 Jan 67
beset 24 Jan 67 5 Feb 67
Wilkes 6 Feb 67 10 Feb 67
Dumont d'Urville 14 Feb 67 16 Feb 67
Melbourne 23 Feb 67

Thala Dan again sub-chartered from Expeditions Polaires Francaises.
Thala Dan was beset for 12 days. She left Wilkes in the path left by USCG
Eastwind.

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