1962 Winter Over Personnel of Wilkes Station
WILKES - Winter 1962 all IN on V2(61-62) Officer in charge: Robert Baden Thomson Medical Officer: Zdenek (Frank) Soucek Cook: Ephraim David Field Senior Diesel Mechanic: Neville Joseph Collins Assistant Diesel Mechanic: Thomas Arthur Edwards Mechanic Driver: Desmond J Evans Electrical Fitter: Keith George Fletcher Plumber: William John Cartledge Supervising Technician (radio): Christopher Anthony John Gorman Radio Operator: John Henry O'Shea Radio Operator: Maxime Jean Simon Radio Operator: Ronald Norman Reu Radio Operator: James John Calman Meteorologist: Burton D Goldenberg Meteorologist and Physicist: Steven D Bone Weather Observer: Leon Neville Eugene Jennings-Fox Weather Observer: Eric L Clague Weather Technician: Danny L Foster Engineer (electronics): Marvin G Haunn Physicist: Steven D Bone above Physicist (IPSO): Donald Lynton Seedsman Geophysicist: Robert Underwood Geophysicist: Donald J Walker Glaciologist: Alastair Cameron Battye
The station, staffed by 19 Australians and four Americans, continued a joint scientific program. New scientific equipment was installed including a cosmic ray neutron monitor and a laboratory for cosmic ray and glaciological research. The outstanding achievement of the year was a four-man 2850 km traverse from Wilkes to Vostok and return led by R B Thomson. A program of glaciological and geophysical investigations extended the knowledge of the ice sheet of this previously unexplored region.
Reference "Antarctic Events Database" data of the Australian Antarctic Data Center
Wilkes 1962 Winter Crew
Large version of Wilkes base group photo 1962. Photo thanks to AAD Image Library.
