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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

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