VOYAGE OF MV NELLA DAN 69/70 V2 - Mawson, Amery Ice Shelf and 19 men recovered from Casey
Voyage - 69/70 V2 - Mawson, Amery Ice Shelf and 19 men recovered from Casey VOYAGE OF MV NELLA DAN Voyage Leader: Donald Franklin Styles, Deputy Director, Antarctic Division Ship Captain: Bent Thygesen Hansen Voyage Support: Deputy Voyage Leader: Eric Leslie Macklin, Logistics Officer, Antarctic Division Army DUKW detachment: Lieut V Robert (Bob) Andrae RAASC/RACT Sgt D E Tucker Cpl D J Thomson Lt J L Briers Cpl B E Brown Cpl R W Wachmere Cpl L J Ritchie Itinerary: Arrive Depart Melbourne 14 Dec 69 19 Dec 69 Davis (6 miles off) 6 Jan 70 6 Jan 70 Amery Ice shelf 7 Jan 70 Mawson 10 Jan 70 19 Jan 70 Casey 26 Jan 70 26 Jan 70 Fremantle 3 Feb 70 During this voyage, Mawson was relieved; men, aircraft and equipment were landed at Mawson to undertake mapping ang geological survey of a portion of the Prince Charles Mountains from an advanced base at Moore Pyramid during the summer; men, vehicles and equipment were placed on the Amery Ice Shelf to undertake a summer glaciological traverse; a geologist was landed at Davis for summer studies of the Vestfold Hills and a physicist was recovered from Davis. The voyage also made a diversion to Casey to recover 19 men from the wintering party, so that Nella Dan would have enough accommodation to embark the EPF party from Dumont d"Urville before ice conditions closed the season. Three helicopters suffered some electrolytic corrosion following a very rough passage to Antarctica.
reference "Antarctic Events Database" data of the Australian Antarctic Data Center