VOYAGE OF MV THALA DAN 65/66 V3 - Wilkes relief
Voyage - 65/66 V3 - Wilkes relief
VOYAGE OF MV THALA DAN
Expedition Leader: Donald Franklin Styles
Ship Captain: Vilhelm Pedersen
Voyage Support:
Deputy Voyage Leader:
Dudley Raymond Twigg, Senior Technical Officer(Radio), Antarctic Division
Army:
Lieut R T Colson
Sgt P A Power
Cpl R J Owens
Lt E Love??
Lt J B Doohan
Sgt H N Hawkins
Cpl J Blackwood
Round Trip:
EPF Party, Melbourne to Dumont d'Urville
G H Birr, Biologist
C H Dagonneau, Magnetician
J Y Segoufin, Magnetician
T T Hoang, Seismologist
P G Leclerq, Auroral Physicist
J F Schmit, Auroral Physicist
G P Pillas, Ionosphericist
G Pelissier, Radiation Physicist, Dumont d'Urville - Wilkes - Melbourne
- Dumont d'Urville
US Observers to visit Wilkes from USCGC Eastwind:
Frank G Sisco, East European Specialist, US State Department
Merton E Davies, Electronic Specialist, Rand Corporation
Ernest F Dukes, Research Officer, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
Cyril Murcomcew, Scientist, US State Department
Karl W Kenyon, Biologist, US Fish and Wildlife Service
Itinerary: Arrive Depart
Melbourne 10 Jan 66
Dumont d'Urville 18 Jan 66 18 Jan 66
Wilkes 25 Jan 66 9 Feb 66
Melbourne 21 Feb 66 22 Feb 66
Dumont d'Urville 1 Mar 66
Thala Dan was sub-chartered from ExpŽditions Polaires Fran?aises for this
voyage which relieved Wilkes. Following its return to Melbourne the ship was
delivered to Dumont d'Urville on 1 March 1966.
reference "Antarctic Events Database" data of the Australian Antarctic Data Center