1960 Winter Over Personnel of Wilkes Station

WILKES - Winter 1960
all IN on V2(59-60)
Officer-in-Charge: Harold (Harry) Preston  Black
Medical Officer: Zdenek (Frank) Soucek
Cook: Neal Howard Graham
Senior Diesel Mechanic: Ian Lunde
Assistant Diesel Mechanic: James Clive Smith
Assistant Diesel Mechanic: Thomas Arthur Edwards
Plumber: Donald Royal Wilkin Butling (died 16 Feb 2015)
Radio Supervisor: Stuart Michael Campbell  
Radio Officer: Graeme Ernest Lee Burkett
Radio Officer: David Joseph Ward
Biologist: Richard Penny  from US
Meteorologist: Rudolf Honkala   from US
Weather Observer: William Hendrikus Lensink
Weather Observer: James Ronald Harrop
Weather Observer: Angelo F Spano  from US
Weather Technician: David Lee Yingling  from US
Physicist (ionospheric): Brian Henry Wall
Geophysicist: Walter Keith Jones

The wintering party comprised 14 Australian and four American expeditioners who continued a joint research program. Field work included a month long tractor train journey southward over the plateau and weekly visits to the inland satellite stations. Daily radio teletype schedules were inaugurated with Australia, Mawson and Davis.

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

Wilkes 1960 Winter Crew

Photo thanks to AAD Image Library.