1960 Winter Over Personnel of Wilkes Station
WILKES - Winter 1960 all IN on V2(59-60) Officer-in-Charge: Harold (Harry) Preston Black Medical Officer: Zdenek (Frank) Soucek Cook: Neal Howard Graham Senior Diesel Mechanic: Ian Lunde Assistant Diesel Mechanic: James Clive Smith Assistant Diesel Mechanic: Thomas Arthur Edwards Plumber: Donald Royal Wilkin Butling Radio Supervisor: Stuart Michael Campbell Radio Officer: Graeme Ernest Lee Burkett Radio Officer: David Joseph Ward Biologist: Richard Penny from US Meteorologist: Rudolf Honkala from US Weather Observer: William Hendrikus Lensink Weather Observer: James Ronald Harrop Weather Observer: Angelo F Spano from US Weather Technician: David Lee Yingling from US Physicist (ionospheric): Brian Henry Wall Geophysicist: Walter Keith Jones
The wintering party comprised 14 Australian and four American expeditioners who continued a joint research program. Field work included a month long tractor train journey southward over the plateau and weekly visits to the inland satellite stations. Daily radio teletype schedules were inaugurated with Australia, Mawson and Davis.
Reference "Antarctic Events Database" data of the Australian Antarctic Data Center
Wilkes 1960 Winter Crew
Large version of Wilkes base group photo 1960. Photo thanks to AAD Image Library.
