VOYAGE OF MV NELLA DAN 65/66 V2 - Inspection of site for Casey
Voyage - 65/66 V2 - Inspection of site for Casey VOYAGE OF MV NELLA DAN Expedition Leader: Phillip Garth Law Ship Captain: Wenzel Gommersen Voyage Support: Deputy Voyage Leader: Eric Macdklin Army DUKWS: Lt E Love Lt J B Doohan Lt R T Colson Sgt P A Power Sgt H N Hawkins Cpl J Blackwood Cpl R J Owens Air Operations: Group Captain Robert Frederick Martin Dalton, Air Operations, Antarctic Division Round Trip: Captain Treatt Robin Langford Oliver, Geologist John James Shaw, Photographer Itinerary: Arrive Depart Melbourne 29 Dec 65 Wilkes (Repstat) 11 Jan 66 26 Jan 66 Mawson 3 Feb 66 15 Feb 66 Amery Ice Shelf Davis 19 Feb 66 19 Feb 66 Lewis Island 2 Mar 66 3 Mar 66 Hobart 11 Mar 66 On the passage from Melbourne to Wilkes a Beaver aircraft was damaged on board the ship in a storm and was returned to Australia unused. An inspection was made of the site for Casey, the replacement station for Wilkes. The Amery Ice Shelf was delineated from the ship using radar and landings were made at the southern extremity of Prydz Bay. Two thousand nautical miles of soundings were made. The vacated Davis station was inspected on 19 February. This was Dr Phillip Law's last ANARE voyage.
reference "Antarctic Events Database" data of the Australian Antarctic Data Center