1947/48 V1 details

General information

Season

1947/48

Voyage

V1

Ship

LST 3501 (later HMAS Labuan)

Leader

Voyage Leader

Group Captain Stuart A C Campbell

Voyage Objectives

Station establishment Heard Isl

Comments

This voyage landed personnel and stores for the establishment of the ANARE station at Atlas Cove on Heard Island. The expedition's Walrus aircraft was wrecked on 21 Dec during a storm shortly after being landed on the Island and taking the first aerial photographs of Big Ben. Over the New Year period the ship visited Iles Kerguelen to depot fuel for the Wyatt Earp.

Voyage Reports

No reports known - if you know of any, please contact the Data Centre and we can add them.

Schedule

From	Depart	To	Arrive
Sydney	31-Oct-1947	Melbourne	3-Nov-1947
Melbourne	17-Nov-1947	Fremantle	24-Nov-1947
Fremantle	28-Nov-1947	Atlas Cove, Heard Island	11-Dec-1947
Atlas Cove, Heard Island	28-Dec-1947	Iles Kerguelen	30-Dec-1947
Iles Kerguelen	1-Jan-1948	Atlas Cove, Heard Island	2-Jan-1948
Atlas Cove, Heard Island	4-Jan-1948	Melbourne	18-Jan-1948

See also List of sitreps - not guaranteed to work as voyage naming conventions are not consistent.

See the 1947/48 Voyage Schedule for other voyages for this season.

Voyage track

Spatial bounds of voyage

No track has been constructed.

Voyage Data and Activities

Voyage activities

There are no data related activities recorded for this voyage.

Weather

There is no weather data for this voyage.

Science Projects

Note - this page lists projects where there has been some requirements logged. This may include requests that are not directly associated with any science performed on the ship.

No Australian Antarctic Science Projects for voyage. See Current and Previous Projects for details on other projects.