1964 Winter Over Personnel of Wilkes Station
WILKES - Winter 1964 all IN on V2(63-64), all OUT on V3(63-64) Officer in charge: Raymond A O'Leary Medical Officer: Lyndon George Murray Cook: Frederick Cross Senior Diesel Mechanic: Geoffrey Charles Hulcombe Assistant Diesel Mechanic: Ross G Hall Mechanic-Driver: Henry S Jones Electrical Fitter: M John Freeman Supervising Technician(radio): Thomas Ellis Radio Technician: Neil Henry Simmons Radio Operator-in-Charge: John Henry O'Shea Radio Operator: Neville K Woods Radio Operator: David Rogers Radio Operator: Brian E Fogarty Weather Observer-in-Charge: Leon Neville Eugene Jennings-Fox Weather Observer: Aristide M Bonnici Weather Observer: Denis G Brophy Weather Observer(radio): Geoffrey O Williams Senior Technician(electronics): Gordon Alden Smith Physicist(ionosphere): John R Pollard Physicist(upper atmosphere and cosmic ray): Michael Bowthorpe Geophysicist: Graeme R Small Glaciologist: Peter J Morgan Seismologist: Roy Whitworth Surveyor: Keith R Budnick
The wintering party comprised 24 expeditioners. In March, eight of the party, using mechanised transport, conducted glaciological and geophysical research at an ice dome 110 km south-east of the station. In November another party made observations in the Vanderford Glacier area on the route to Cape Folger.
Reference "Antarctic Events Database" data of the Australian Antarctic Data Center
Wilkes 1964 Winter Crew
Large version of Wilkes base group photo 1964. Photo thanks to AAD Image Library.
