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VOYAGE OF MV THALA DAN 66/67 V3 - Dumont d'Urville & Wilkes

Voyage - 66/67 V3 - Dumont d'Urville & Wilkes
VOYAGE OF MV THALA DAN 
Voyage Leader: Francis Patrick McMahon
Ship Captain: Wenzel Gommersen

Voyage Support:
Deputy Voyage Leader: Eric Leslie Macklin

Army DUKW crew:
Lieut G Bool
Cpl Ken G Webber or Weber?
Cfn Phillip L Wainwright, RAEME
Lt J B Doohan
Lcpl K Robinson
Lcpl J F Ford

Ian George Bird, Electronics Engineer, Melbourne to Dumont d'Urville to Wilkes 
and transferred to Nella Dan for RTA
Dr J Katsufrakis, US Observer, Melbourne to Dumont d'Urville to Melbourne

EPF Party, Melbourne to Dumont d'Urville
Hanf
Fischer
Le Pouriel
Dassonville
Godard
Marguerite
Touzel
Sandron
Guyon
Lacan
Cheval
Henzey

EPF Party, Dumont d'Urville to Melbourne
Guillard
Ambergny
Belloncle
Berthelier
Boisnard
Coppee
Delavigne
Gogny
Isbarrart
Lambert
Le Gallic
Marx
Martin
Salmon
Sauvage
Toskert
Volck
Dagonneau

Itinerary:         Arrive       Depart

Melbourne                        6 Jan 67
Dumont d'Urville   15 Jan 67    15 Jan 67
beset              24 Jan 67     5 Feb 67
Wilkes              6 Feb 67    10 Feb 67
Dumont d'Urville   14 Feb 67    16 Feb 67
Melbourne          23 Feb 67

Thala Dan again sub-chartered from Expeditions Polaires Francaises.
Thala Dan was beset for 12 days. She left Wilkes in the path left by USCG 
Eastwind. 

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

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