Credits and Thanks

This Wilkes history web site is a community project. My role is pulling it together, putting it on the web, and making this amazing history as accessible as possible. If you have any connection to Wilkes and are willing to contribute in anyway I'd love to hear from you. For initial contact go to my contact page.

I am in debt to the the Wilkes old timers, and their families, who have contributed to these pages. I also can not thank the ANARE Club enough for support both on this project and in general. I encourage all people who have work with the Australian Antarctic program to become members of the ANARE Club, and become an active member.

There are 2 other Wilkes history projects underway that I know of, a documentary using archive footage from Wilkes being led by Bill Burch, Wilkes 1961, and Steve Grimsley, Wilkes 1961, is working on a book of personal accounts of Wilkes. Any material collected for the web project will be shared with these 2 projects.

Individuals I would like to thank

Wilkes Expeditioners

Noel Barrett
Alastair Battye
Frank Benlein
Harry Black
Sebastian Borrello
Bill Burch
Dick Cameron
Mike Campbell
Graeme Currie
David "Dan" Daniel
Gil Dewart
Albert Gidding
John Gillies
Steve Grimsley
Ron Hann
Olav Loken
Allen McLaren
Geoff Payne
Pat Patterson
Frank Scaysbrook
Donald Seedsman
Ken "Scruffy" Shennan
Neil Simmons
Neville Smethurst
Doug Twigg
John "Snow" Williams

Other Expeditioners

Billy-Ace Baker
Scott "Scotty Bob" Smith
Bill Spindler

Non Expeditioners

Mike Daniel
Renee Edman
Norma Green
Connie Gray Siemen
Andrew Sullivan
Martin Walker

Organizations I would like to thank

ANARE Club
Bill Burch, John Gillies, Doug Twigg

Australian Antarctic Division
Jessica Fitzpatrick
Jonothan Davis, Image Library Coordinator

The National Science Foundation, United States Antarctic Program
Elaine Hood - USAP Photo Library Archivist

National Academy of Sciences
Daniel Barbiero - Manager, Archives and Records

Australia Post
Richard Breckon - Historian, Philatelic Group